[QUOTE=Pithy Moniker]
And to think, if I were to beat you to death for that pun, I’D be the one who went to jail.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Ringers seems to have been coined as a LOTR-counterpart to Trekker because of the movies. It is, like Trekker, not very accepted among most fans.
Tolkien fandom is an international, informal community of fans of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially of the Middle-earth legendarium which includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. The concept of Tolkien fandom as a specific type of fan subculture sprang up in the United States in the 1960s, in the context of the hippie movement, to the dismay of the author (Tolkien died in 1973), who talked of "my deplorable cultus". A Tolkienist is a fan who studies the work of...
But it’s also the name of a Tolkien documentary that does cover the entire history of LOTR-fandom, so it’s probably here to stay.
Ringers: Lord of the Fans is a 2005 documentary film investigating the growth of the Tolkien fandom all the way from the release of The Hobbit book by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003).
The film tells about the early days of the Tolkien fandom when it was part of the hippie culture and influenced many people in the pop world, some of whom became famous and are interviewed, including David Carradine, and Lemmy of Motörhead. Ringers includes L...
Totally unrelated, David Cone fans are referred to as Coneheads.
Even further unrelated, I’m always surprised Buffy fandom never got a nickname.
When Gene Keady was the coach of the Purdue men’s basketball team, the student section was referred to as “The Gene Pool”.
The Antlers (University of Missouri student rowdies) are notorious for their antics at Tigers’ basketball games.
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Tolkien fandom is an international, informal community of fans of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially of the Middle-earth legendarium which includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. The concept of Tolkien fandom as a specific type of fan subculture sprang up in the United States in the 1960s, in the context of the hippie movement, to the dismay of the author (Tolkien died in 1973), who talked of "my deplorable cultus". A Tolkienist is a fan who studies the work of...
But it’s also the name of a Tolkien documentary that does cover the entire history of LOTR-fandom, so it’s probably here to stay.
Ringers: Lord of the Fans is a 2005 documentary film investigating the growth of the Tolkien fandom all the way from the release of The Hobbit book by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003).
The film tells about the early days of the Tolkien fandom when it was part of the hippie culture and influenced many people in the pop world, some of whom became famous and are interviewed, including David Carradine, and Lemmy of Motörhead. Ringers includes L...
Totally unrelated, David Cone fans are referred to as Coneheads.
Even further unrelated, I’m always surprised Buffy fandom never got a nickname.
Here is the one that was popular in the 80s: Mythopoeic Society