Spectacular Full Trailer for SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE! She looped in Cassia, and the three of us had a long email interview about the Mellon Chronicles and the early days of Lord of the Rings online fandom. "I think the first time I realized how much others were enjoying the world we'd created was when people started requesting to use our original characters and sometimes the backdrop of the MC world as a whole in their own stories," Cassia says. "Friendship with her was the best thing that came out of the MC. According to the court documents filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California, Polychron alleges that Amazon's new TV series, which is based on Tolkien's extensive universe and the appendices he wrote, ripped off his own published novel, which is, in turn, derived from Tolkien's work. Basically, we just kept going as long as the inspiration held," Cassia said. They were wrongshortly after aragorn-legolas.5u.com's disappearance, the Mellon Chronicles started appearing on the popular fanfiction website Archive Of Our Own, moved by an English fan, Eleanore, 26. When the Mellon Chronicles ended in 2005, Cassia and Sio mailed a CD with the text of the entire series on it to every reader who wanted one. "I don't think it was until we were halfway through writing the story that came after that, 'Exile,' that we realized this was going to be a series, since by then we realized that 'Exile' was going to have to end with something pretty drastic happening, that would then need to be fixed in the following story, 'Return.' ", The ending of the Mellon Chronicles coincided with the beginning of the stories' disappearance. Sio says that it was simply time for the series to end. He'd be out with Gimli and a few of Aragorn's men. I think this whole thing is hilarious that a fan-fiction writer is suing the people who actually own the rights to the stories that hes building his fan-fiction off of. Cassia and Sio wrote collaboratively, coming up with ideas and outlines in "a flurry of emails back and forth," and then each writer would choose sections to work on. LORD OF THE RINGS Fan Fiction Author is Suing Amazon Studios Over THE Cookie Declaration /// Privacy Policy I spent half the day writing in between work duties and keeping up with the [Yahoo Groups] List.". They didn't realize that Yahoo had an automatic Group Mailing List set up with the website, so when they started getting emails about stories they were totally surprised. Then, Sio wrote a short story about Aragorn and Legolas' first encounter called "First Meetings," giving Legolas the history that Cassia wrote for him. Links monetized by VigLinkCustom Code and Design by, Free Reyes. People are nuts. ", Neither Cassia nor Sio ever published any more fanfiction, though Cassia now writes original fiction and Sio paints and draws. Amazon secured the rights to The Lord of the Rings story through extensive collaboration with The Tolkien Estate, and this legal wrangling seems more like a publicity stunt than a genuine legal challenge. All rights reserved. After the fanfiction.net takedown, Cassia and Sio continued posting the Mellon Chronicles on their own website, aragorn-legolas.5u.com, and in the Yahoo Group, but in summer 2005, they posted their final storyand with it, an announcement that, "To paraphrase Bilbo slightly, we need a holiday.