And to think, if I were to beat you to death for that pun, I’D be the one who went to jail.
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.
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.
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.
Here is the one that was popular in the 80s: Mythopoeic Society