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Niphredil Baggins · 06-20-2002, 08:45 AM

I'm known att ff.net as Arwen Imladviel. Not all my stuff is Tolkien, but almost. The poetry is the worst. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Of course heroines are allowed! In Tolkien-inspired stories there is all the more room for females, since Tolkien himself had so few significant ones there.

Besides, some male characters of the writer's own invention behave very much like Mary-Sues. They are called Gary-Lou.

I have three female heroes in three different fics, one a hobbit, one an elf, one a Maia. None of them is, I think, a Mary-Sue. Go and read their lives and you'll see what I mean.

oh, and then I have one funny story with only Tolkien's characters, none my own.

06-20-2002, 08:45 AM	#17
Niphredil Baggins Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 118	I'm known att ff.net as Arwen Imladviel. Not all my stuff is Tolkien, but almost. The poetry is the worst. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Of course heroines are allowed! In Tolkien-inspired stories there is all the more room for females, since Tolkien himself had so few significant ones there. Besides, some male characters of the writer's own invention behave very much like Mary-Sues. They are called Gary-Lou. I have three female heroes in three different fics, one a hobbit, one an elf, one a Maia. None of them is, I think, a Mary-Sue. Go and read their lives and you'll see what I mean. oh, and then I have one funny story with only Tolkien's characters, none my own. __________________ Wistful, willful, wingless, fly!