Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings' films sparked new interest in JRR Tolkien's books, causing a huge hype on the internet. In almost no time, there were fanfictions, fanvideos and all kinds of fanart in abundance. What happens, though, with the story itself - being transferred from books, to films, to the internet? What happens to the original characters when they are being re-used in a completely different medium? In this book, Esther Mohler wants to show how fanfictions (especially slash stories) can be a connection between the different media and be a prime example of transmedial...