Challenge #5

Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I found fandom late. I was in my 40s, peri-menopausal and didn't realize it and terribly unhappy. We got the internet at our house and I went hunting for --- connection and fund fandom. Made some nice friends, though my homelife was still strange. Got into the LOTR fandom and met a whole new and better set of friends. I met one person, a German girl twenty years younger than me in an online RPG. we got to chatting and became friends and in 2005, my 15 year old daughter was killed in a car crash. MY new friend called, sent things, cards and finally asked if she could visit. Hubby and I said yes. She and some other wonderful internet friends (Karen and Mel) came over Thanksgiving. We became BFFs and we've seen each other twice a year ever since except during the pandemic. We have visited her in Germany and in Spain this last October. So yeah, fandom might have saved my life.

Challenge #6

Share your favourite piece of original canon. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This Scene in Return of the King in which Gandalf talks of death to Pippin