{"id":1672,"date":"2019-06-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-12T19:27:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:27:55","slug":"how-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/how-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-does\/","title":{"rendered":"How Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Does Fan Fiction Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/How2BMiddle2BEarth2BShadow2Bof2BMordor2BDoes2BFan2BFiction2BRight.png?resize=640%2C536&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"536\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1341\" data-original-width=\"1600\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">I&#8217;ve never been that crazy about fan fiction. Mostly it&#8217;s wrapped up in retconning points in the plot that people didn&#8217;t like or shipping two characters that didn&#8217;t sail in the show\/movie\/video game. I had a friend who did fanfic of\u00a0<i>How to Train Your Dragon\u00a0<\/i>which included changing all of the characters&#8217; names (Like Hiccup to Sven) and I&#8217;m like &#8230; why? Which is one reason why I haven&#8217;t played\u00a0<i>Shadow of Mordor<\/i>\u00a0until last month&#8211;the other reason was I didn&#8217;t have a PS4, but that&#8217;s beside the point. I could have watched the YouTube gameplay if I really wanted to.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">I&#8217;m a big fan of Tolkien&#8217;s works and I did\u00a0<i>not\u00a0<\/i>want to play a game where the canon was shredded and things were retconned. But one of my best friends who watched her husband play it convinced me that it was good, so I bought it last month on sale at GameStop and &#8230; I loved it. Hence the focus of the post. Not much of a plot twist. But I played this game and thought it would totally get Tolkien&#8217;s approval and should be a model for anyone who wants to write good quality fan fiction that hardcore fans of the source material will really enjoy.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><i>Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor<\/i>\u00a0centers around Tallion, a Gondorian ranger, who was killed along with his family in a blood ritual by the Hand of Sauron. But he wakes up alive in Mordor, sharing his body with the spirit of the elf Celebrimbor whose family was killed like Tallion&#8217;s. Using the wraith-like powers granted to Tallion by Celebrimbor the two seek to thwart Sauron in any way they can and exact revenge on the Black Hand.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Warning: Some spoilers unless you read\u00a0<i>the Silmarillion\u00a0<\/i>then you know most of them already.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n1.) Finding a Gap in the Story<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">There is a fifty-year gap between\u00a0<i>the Hobbit<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>the Lord of the Rings<\/i>. That&#8217;s a large span of time. So much can happen and did happen during that time, such as Aragorn searching for Gollum and Legolas and Aragorn becoming friends. But this was also prime time for an original story to take place. There&#8217;s plenty of tension going on what with Sauron&#8217;s power growing. In the books, we don&#8217;t see much of what is going on exactly with Gondor in their fight against the dark power until\u00a0<i>The Two Towers.\u00a0<\/i>In this story, we see more of Gondor and their struggle against Mordor and how Mordor has slowly encroached on Gondorian lands and destroyed the lives of common folk.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">There are so many gaps in other stories that can be expanded upon such as Iroh&#8217;s time in the spirit world in\u00a0<i>Avatar: The Last Airbender\u00a0<\/i>or Malcolm Reynold&#8217;s past before he became a Browncoat or what happened exactly to District 13 in\u00a0<i>The Hunger Games<\/i>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ratbag_is_checking_the_slaves.jpg?resize=640%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1540\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\">Orcs have taken slaves to help build Sauron&#8217;s empire.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>2.) Creating Original Content Loyal to Canon<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The characters Talion, Ratbag, The Black Hand, Lithariel, and Hirgon were not Tolkien&#8217;s characters nor were caragors and graugs creatures created by Tolkien. But all of these beings were created in the essence of Tolkien&#8217;s works. Their names are derived from Sindarin such as graug means &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0&#8220;a powerful, hostile and terrible creature, a demon&#8221; and caragor means &#8220;row of teeth&#8221; and &#8220;bringer of fear.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Middle Earth is such a big world, of course, more creatures can exist than that in\u00a0<i>the Lord of the Rings<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>the Hobbit\u00a0<\/i>just none of the characters could have stumbled upon them. And of course, there are more people than just our wonderful Bilbo Baggins and the Fellowship. \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The orcs could have certainly taken slaves. They&#8217;re evil enough and certainly some humans would fight back. Sauron has the Mouth of Sauron. Why not a Hand at some point too?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Tolkien created such a big world that there&#8217;s plenty to build upon. All of these headcanon elements kept to the essence of\u00a0<i>the Lord of the Rings<\/i>\u00a0and none of them felt out of place in the story world.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Other worlds have so much to expand upon. What other half and half creatures are there in ATLA? What other mutants are there in X-Men? What has happened to other humans who stumbled upon the Bathhouse in\u00a0<i>Spirited Away<\/i>?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Talion-on-caragor-.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\">Talion on a caragor watching graugs fight orcs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>3.)\u00a0Using Well-Known and Lesser Known Characters<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><i>Shadow of Mordor\u00a0<\/i>uses several canon characters including Gollum, Celebrimbor, Sauron himself, and it even mentions the two blue wizards. The more well-known characters like Gollum and Sauron give a sense of familiarity to the world, while Celebrimbor and the Blue Wizards add an air of mystery since they&#8217;re characters many fans know little about. Familiarity and mystery were two wonderful components in this game. There&#8217;s so much many don&#8217;t know about Middle Earth.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>4.)\u00a0Taking Creative License that Doesn&#8217;t Effect Canon<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Like many film adaptions sometimes there are some changes in the character backstory or plot. The plot is all original here, so no changes there, but Celebrimbor&#8217;s backstory was slightly changed. It honestly gave him even more importance than he already had. In canon, Celebrimbor forged the three magic rings for elves, but in the game, he forged all of the rings and helped with the final touches of the one ring. In canon, Sauron does murder Celebrimbor but in the game, his death is even more agonizing.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The creators also expanded on orc culture, showing how they choose their leaders, what they do in their free time, and so on, creating even more depth for that facet of Middle Earth.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-talion-celebrimbor.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Fan-fiction can be a really fun writing exercise. Fan-fiction is also fun to write how you wanted the story to go, but the best fan-fiction expands on what is there in a way that can fit into the canon seamlessly. And who knows? If you write something this good, y<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;\">ou may get a video game made for it. \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1233\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/keeping-morality-in-fiction-whats-line\/vegvisirpagebreakcomplete-png-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/VegvisirPageBreakComplete.png?fit=1600%2C451&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,451\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VegvisirPageBreakComplete.png\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/VegvisirPageBreakComplete.png?fit=300%2C85&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/VegvisirPageBreakComplete.png?fit=1024%2C289&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1233\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/VegvisirPageBreakComplete.png?resize=1600%2C451&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Have you played\u00a0Shadow of Mordor? Have you ever written fan fiction? What type of fan fiction do you like the best?<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been that crazy about fan fiction. Mostly it&#8217;s wrapped up in retconning points in the plot that people didn&#8217;t like or shipping two characters that didn&#8217;t sail in the show\/movie\/video game. I had a friend who did fanfic of\u00a0How to Train Your Dragon\u00a0which included changing all of the characters&#8217; names (Like Hiccup &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/how-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-does\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Does Fan Fiction Right<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40],"tags":[245,243,242,244,103,51],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","category-writing-tips","tag-fan-fiction","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-middle-earth","tag-shadow-of-mordor","tag-video-game","tag-writing-lessons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Does Fan Fiction Right - Wanderer&#039;s Pen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/how-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-does\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Does Fan Fiction Right - Wanderer&#039;s Pen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been that crazy about fan fiction. 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