it might be fine to put Hobbit, LOTR, and Silm in one category
My understanding has always been that that's how the general "Middle-earth" tag is usually used by participants, and it sits alongside the more specific ones for each part of that.
In general, I'm very comfortable with overlapping fandoms in worldbuildingex because of the existence of canons with lots of different source material with different levels of ease of access (to take a non-Tolkien example, I don't want people being put off creating works for Star Wars because they haven't played every computer game and aren't on top of however many different comics titles Marvel are pumping out every month).
So far for Tolkien this year we have general "Middle-earth", Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion+HoME tag we're discussing here, and a separate "Book of Lost Tales" one. In principle, though, if there are distinct chunks of draft material that are coherent within themselves and people want to separate them out into their own "fandom" within the tag set, I'm fine with that as well. That siad, if that were the case I would appreciate a heads-up as to exactly what material is included so that we can try to make sure everyone's on the same page.
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Date: 2022-01-07 08:27 pm (UTC)My understanding has always been that that's how the general "Middle-earth" tag is usually used by participants, and it sits alongside the more specific ones for each part of that.
In general, I'm very comfortable with overlapping fandoms in worldbuildingex because of the existence of canons with lots of different source material with different levels of ease of access (to take a non-Tolkien example, I don't want people being put off creating works for Star Wars because they haven't played every computer game and aren't on top of however many different comics titles Marvel are pumping out every month).
So far for Tolkien this year we have general "Middle-earth", Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion+HoME tag we're discussing here, and a separate "Book of Lost Tales" one. In principle, though, if there are distinct chunks of draft material that are coherent within themselves and people want to separate them out into their own "fandom" within the tag set, I'm fine with that as well. That siad, if that were the case I would appreciate a heads-up as to exactly what material is included so that we can try to make sure everyone's on the same page.