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terhenetar said:
First and foremost, badly written fics. I hate it when there is some (or sometimes even a lot of) potential in the plot, but style and language make the story unreadable. Seeing as I'm not an English native speaker who usually reads fics in English, overly colloquial stories with loads of grammar and spelling mistakes, make it impossible for me to enjoy the storyline.
Secondly, aforementioned fics which are too much out-of-character. In some parodies or "lighter" stories a reasonable level of OOCness is acceptable (sometimes, although rather rarely, even desirable), but it must be done with caution and understanding of the character.
Thirdly, I dislike fics whose authors clearly have never read the books and seen the movies only once or twice. I'm not expecting anyone to learn Quenya and read all Christopher Tolkien's comments to unpublished or unfinished works, but writing the story with little to no knowledge of Middle Earth is simply 'not right' in my opinion.
Last, but not least, fanfiction with poor (or none whatsoever) plot. And no, I wasn't referring to PWP, but to "a 14-year old girl fallls into ME, discoveres she's a half Maia with a ridiculous Quenyan name, saves the world by killing Sauron with her beautiful smile and exceptional voice, becomes a damsel in distress despite her numerous skills, gets rescued by her crush and then marries Legolas/Glorfindel/Haldir/...".
I won't criticise slash, because I love slash. Frankly speaking, I hardly ever read het. What the fandom could benefit from, is more femmslash - there's Galadriel, Melian, Idril, Aredhel, Luthien, Eowyn, Arwen, ..., not to mention the characters we know close to nothing about and who leave a lot of "free space" for an author - Findis, Irime or Arwen's daughters.
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