{"id":1401493,"date":"2022-11-08T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1401493"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T16:08:44","slug":"6-classic-novels-that-started-off-as-fanfiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/6-classic-novels-that-started-off-as-fanfiction\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Books on Your English Syllabus That Started Off as Fanfiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/samwisefrodolordoftheringsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine, for a moment, that your favorite 20,000-word NSFW <em>Star Wars<\/em> fanfic is being taught in actual schools, and actual teachers are analyzing the word choice, and everyone has to read three chapters by Friday. That&#8217;s more or less exactly what happened with the following novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see, some fanfics become multi-billion dollar movie franchises. (Looking at you, <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>.) Others become enduring literary classics that are so revered and renowned that everyone forgets they started off as drabble. Today we&#8217;re going to be talking about the latter, because honestly, not enough people know that Tolkien was fanboy trash just like the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine, for a moment, that your favorite 20,000-word NSFW Star Wars fanfic is being taught in actual schools, and actual teachers are analyzing the word choice, and everyone has to read three chapters by Friday.   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,2335,23905,25017,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401493"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445842,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401493\/revisions\/1445842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}