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Sixteen years on from this post and 77,303,568 people voted to do just that, and more. Sad what has become of the States.

Thanks. I don’t write as much as I did long ago, but still am deep in the Middle-earth fanfiction and collaborative writing. I’ll see about sharing some of my old stories here.

More than a few times my wife and my collaborative fanfic writing set within the lines of Tolkien’s Middle-earth canon has gone off the rails. Our ‘Kin-strife’ story and out ‘Last Princess of Cardolan’ story really stretched the limits of what ne could do within the written canon framework. We’re currently working on another one called ‘The Tale of Valacar and Vidumavi’ which is a prequel to ‘Kin Strife’.

I can’t count them all. I first started writing Tolkien’s Middle-earth collaborative roleplay and fanfiction stories on the One Ring (.com) forum back in 1999. Many fell into ruin with various website crashes and moderator deletions for being ‘too adult’. Fair enough, so I started my own forum on EZBoard in 2022, and had a lot oif saved stories posted there. Unfortunately EZBoard was sabotaged by a disgruntled employee on May 31st 2005 and wiped clean. The then mirrored the wiped site to the back-up. Fortunately, an old back-up was found after it was discivered that proper back-up hadn’t been done for nine months. There was a difference between ‘backing up’ and ‘mirroring’. Anyway, many stories were recovered with the last part lost. These days, I have an external harddrive I store them on, along with my One Drive and iCloud, and I had a lot of them saved under the RP Repository roof in a group I develope. Sadly, not being in control of it, it got deleted when I handed it off to someone else when I was asked to move on. Still, I have many from over 20 years ago, but equally as many have been lost ofer the time when various forum sites ceased to exist.

Remembering Many Paths To Tread and Open Scrolls Middle-earth fanfiction sites. The former was working fine until the domain expired and it went away forever, and the latter wasn’t tech-maintained and fell into ruin. The domain is still active and I get the default splash page, but the link to the Hall of Scrolls won’t open.

Hello! Apparently I registered here back in 2018 and made one post. Computer changes had me lose the link, and now that I again got a new computer (Thanks Microsoft for ending Windows 10 support) I decided to cleanout my email clutter. Under an ‘Accounts’ folder, I found my activation email for here, so decided to visit. I updated my account and here I am! I do write some fan fiction; mainly in Tolkien’s Middle-earth (my namesake is an OC I created embedded in the Lord of the Rings story). I have recently written some adult modern day drama with several OCs I created, and with some characters others had given to me to use. I could edit and share some of them here if that is acceptable. Anyway, like so many other forums, it looks like activity has waned from the beginning of this decade. The last intro post was in 2023. Hope to be around more since I now saved a bookmark.

It certainly wasn’t stolen, and January 6th 2021 was an insurrection. Sadly, the insurrectionists ‘won’ in 2024.

I enjoy writing fanfics of the deep everyday world of Middle Earth usung the great historical summary Tolkien wrote in the Return of the King Appendices. Take the Fall of Arthedain for example, or the Kin Strife of Gondor… so much to work with!