Cultus Dispatches: Six Demographic Takeaways from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey
Who writes Tolkien-based fanfiction? Who reads it? As the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey enters its third iteration with up to ten years of demographic data, this month's Cultus Dispatches column tackles evidence from the survey to answer that question.
Ten years ago, the Tolkien fandom saw the final film of the Hobbit trilogy, which brought a boom in activity. With those films a decade behind us and in the midst of the Rings of Power television show, how has the fandom changed? Demographic data shows key changes in gender, educational attainment, and age, as well as sustained trends in race/ethnicity and religion and new insights about neurodiversity.
You can read the article "Six Demographic Takeaways from the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey" here.
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