My favourite comment ever posted about my fanfic

[bunn]

"bleh! What have you done to the beautiful dialect of the smilarilion? You've trashed it and made it modern! That is a travesty, and no true fan of tolkein would do this. I reject this work."
-- an unregistered user on archiveofourown

I love this comment so much that I am seriously considering getting it printed on a t-shirt.  I keep reading it again and it makes me fall over laughing again.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I hope you wrote back and explained you were using the correct dialect for the smilarilion - as spoken by the tolkein (I assume tolkeins are a form of being, like elves and dwarves).

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I very nearly did, but then I thought what if they are genuinely dyslexic or something like that? (OK, also a bit rude, but one might be dyslexic and rude...) So I wrote a very serious and polite reply without mentioning the spelling.

But I am still laughing!