History Fanon / TolkiensLegendarium

* ''Boromir'' is a HeManWomanHater or even a StrawMisogynist. He thinks that women can't do anything. In fan fiction, Boromir acts rude to any woman he meets; and if the woman offers to help the group, Boromir argues against her. Fans do this to make their female characters seem more special.
* ''Elladan'' and ''Elrohir'' are [[TricksterTwins troublemakers]]. Elrohir is the more sensitive of the two, and Elladan has more of a temper. None of that is in the books. By extension, Amrod and Amras, another pair of barely-characterized twins two Ages earlier, are the same.

*** OTOH Galadriel's message to him via Gandalf starts "Legolas Greenleaf long under tree, so at least one use is canon.

** Fans assume that Thorin, Fili and Kili are the only dwarves in Durin's line, among the thirteen dwarves of ''The Hobbit''. They assume wrong. ''[=LoTR=]'' Appendix A reveals that Balin, Dwalin, Óin, Glóin, Ori, Nori and Dori are in Durin's line. Bifur, Bofur and Bombur are not.
** Dwarf-women have no beards. This is probably wrong: ''[=LoTR=]'' Appendix A states of dwarf-women, 'They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart.' Therefore, dwarf-women have beards like dwarf-men.

** Some fans believe that [[http://askmiddlearth.tumblr.com/post/41793669791/vegetarian-elves Elves are vegetarian]], with almost no evidence. ''The Hobbit'', chapter 8, where the Elves of Mirkwood have 'roast meats', is one of several canon references to suggest that Elves do eat meat.\\

In ''The Silmarillion'' Chapter 17, the Elves of Ossiriand say of Men: 'And these folk are hewers of the trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart then we shall inflict them in all ways that we can.' This line suggests that Elves are not 'hunters of beasts' and never eat meat, but there are other interpretations. Perhaps Elves eat meat but Men would kill too many beasts. Perhaps Elves eat fish, not beasts of land. Perhaps the Elves of Ossiriand are vegetarians but other Elves are not.\\

** Fans are not sure how many elves have golden hair. ''[=LoTR=]'' Appendix F says of the elves, 'their locks were dark, save in the golden house of Finarfin' (or in older editions, 'house of Finrod'), but that isn't all true, because in ''The Silmarillion'', Finarfin is the son of Indis of the Vanyar, and the Vanyar have golden hair.
*** Conflating elements from the books and movies, a common assumption after the movies was that, in Middle Earth, the remaining Elves have golden hair and the half-Elven have dark hair as this is how they were depicted on screen. The half-Elves of Rivendell shown with dark hair and the Elven of Lórien and Mirkwood were shown with golden hair. The movies did not distinguish between the half-Elven and the Elves at all; they were all referred to as Elves.
* ''Orcs'' in fan fiction like to ravish the daughters of Elves and Men. The canon is too vague; we know that orcs did something to Celebrían, but not exactly what. Fans suppose that they raped her. Even if orcs prefer to rape other orcs, there might be at least a few orcs who rape other races.

** It's also ''very, very'' commonly accepted that Aragorn and Legolas knew each other well before ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' took place. It's everything but canon now. Does make sense when you consider the facts though: Elrond and Thranduil most likely keep very close contact, and so given he's Thranduil's son, this would mean Legolas has probably spent a decent amount of time in Rivendell, where Aragorn has lived most of his life up to the Fellowship.

* ''Elladan'' and ''Elrohir'' are [[TricksterTwins troublemakers]]. Elrohir is the more sensitive of the two, and Elladan has more of a temper. None of that is in the books.
** By extension, Amrod and Amras, another pair of barely-characterized twins two Ages earlier, are the same.

* ''Radagast'' is a character in Peter Jackson's ''The Hobbit'' movies, but [[TheGhost only appears in flashback]] in ''Liturature/TheLordOfTheRings''. He's barely even mentioned in ''Literature/TheHobbit'', mentioned once by Gandalf as a "good cousin". He was shown to be a [[FriendToAllLivingThings friend of beasts]] and is referred to by Saruman as a "bird-tamer", but mostly, fans take his character traits from Peter Jackson's films.

* ''Mairon'' is given next to no physical description in the books, other than he had intense eyes. He is commonly depicted as a red head (due to his fire motif), or as a reddish/golden blond (to match the one ring).

** Melkor (and sometimes Morgoth) is depicted as a Byronic-looking, very tall, heavily muscled man with long black hair, who always wears gloves to hide his burned hands and walks with a limp because of the wound sustained in the duel with Fingolfin. In other versions, he shapeshifts between the Byronic man and Howe's giant armored monster at will, like in ''FanFic/BeyondTheDawn''.

** In the aforementioned Russian fanon, he looks like a Byronic looking tall, thin man with long white hair, always wearing gloves to hide his burned hands, walking with a limp because of the wound sustained in the duel with Fingolfin. Yes, ''FanFic/TheBlackBookOfArda'' again. In other versions, he shapeshifts between the Byronic man and Howe's giant armored monster at will, like in ''FanFic/BeyondTheDawn''.

** The (common to most Tolkien fandoms) notion of Celegorm the blond

{{Canon}} for this fandom is notoriously shifty -- what with Creator/JRRTolkien constantly revising his ideas -- and TheFilmOfTheBook can't help either. The best that we can do is check what Tolkien wrote.

* ''Lothíriel'' of Dol Amroth is almost always said to be a trained healer, even though this never appears in any source material. She also invariably has dark hair (unsurprising given that she is Gondorian), and her canonical relationship with Éomer is frequently portrayed as a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.

* ''Lothíriel'' is almost always said to be a trained healer, even though this never appears in any source material. She also invariably has dark hair (unsurprising given that she is Gondorian), and her canonical relationship with Éomer is frequently portrayed as a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.

** In the aforementioned Russian fanon, he looks like a Byronic looking tall, thin man with long white hair, always wearing gloves to hide his burned hands, walking with a limp because of the wound sustained in the duel with Fingolfin. Yes, ''FanFic/TheBlackBookOfArda'' again.

** The existence of another Elven nation, which followed Melkor but are neither Orcs nor evil, called ''Elleri Ahe'' (again 'FanFic/TheBlackBookOfArda''; their treatment by non-fans of that varies).

* ''Radagast'' is a character in Peter Jackson's ''The Hobbit'' movies, but [[TheGhost only appears in flashback]] in ''Liturature/TheLordOfTheRings''. He's never even mentioned in ''Literature/TheHobbit''. He was shown to be a [[FriendToAllLivingThings friend of beasts]] and is referred to by Saruman as a "bird-tamer", but mostly, fans take his character traits from Peter Jackson's films.