Legolas by laura
| Fanwork | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Legolas by laura |
| Creator: | Laura |
| Date(s): | Somewhere between July 2002 and October 1, 2014 |
| Medium: | Fanfiction |
| Fandom: | Lord of the Rings |
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Legolas by laura (also known as "And then laura") is an infamous badfic that was posted to Quizilla, most likely sometime in the early 2000s during the site's heyday. It tells the story of Legolas' discovery of a baby in the woods, who he names Laura, and Laura's subsequent adventures at the age of 10.
Legolas by laura has inspired sporkings, numerous dramatic readings, and other parodies and is generally notorious as a prime example of terrible fanfic.
The Story
The text of the story is rather short and repeatedly uses the words "And then Laura" which also gave rise to a popular search term for the story. This is not an exaggeration as there are 88 occurrences of "and then" in this fanfic.
Apart from the repeatedly wrongly written words such as "Milkwood" instead of Mirkwood and "strdier" instead of Strider, the fanfic itself has an all over the place feeling and a very fast pace.
By reading the content it feels like the author was truly passionate and excited to write her story, not stopping at a language barrier which made it all the more precious.
Now it has become a staple for many in the Lord of the Rings fandom who knew this story from Quizilla. The story also ends abruptly due to the character limit that Quizilla had.
Quotes
"how can people put baby in the woodsand to die"
Mean while Gandalf is have a fun time trying to distory the dark lord.
Legolas: they bet you up and raped you also the Dark lord gave you the posion
Legolas: when I was your age they did the samething to me
Laura: how did you know that
Legolas and others: let Laura go
The Dark Lord: no
Legolas: Why they did it to you not me?
Orcs: because she got a power and she can distoy us all the bad guys.
Adaptations & Parodies
- Legolas, by Laura: a dramatic reading by the Protectors of the Plot Continuum York Gathering (2008)
- Legolas by Laura - The Motion Picture by ITTMoses: an animation of a dramatic reading by manwithoutabody
- legolas by Laura, the live-action trailer by Brendan Steere (August 2011)
- Bad Fanfiction Theatre: Legolas By Laura by MasakoX (January 2015)
- Legolas by laura by tultsi93: an MS Paint illustration of the fic (July 2019)