A Meeting in the Hyades

A Meeting in Hyades is a Tolkien crossover with Darkover fic by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
It is a story where Regis Hastur, or a character that later developed into Regis, meets Strider (called "Speranzu") from The Lord of the Rings somewhere in the Darkovan mountains.
It was written in 1954 or 1955, first published as a chapbook in 1961 (68-70 copies were printed),as per a comment in Darkover Newsletter #3 (January 1977) in Andúril (1962), in Astra's Tower (Special Leaflet 1962), and then again in Starstone #1 (1978).
The Andúril edition and the Starstone editions both had art by Juanita Coulson, but it is unknown if they are the same illos.
==Discussed in 1974==
It was discussed in 1974 at a panel discussion at KWestCon. From Ruth Berman & Juanita Coulson: Created Worlds: 
==Introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley: 1961==
From Andúril:
==Introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley: 1978==
By 1978, Bradley was backing away from pointing out that "Speranzu" was a in essence, a character in Lord of the Rings, probably due to professional nervous reasons.
From Starstone #1:
==1995 Statement Regarding Zimmer's Lack of Permission and Unlawful Publication of This Story==
Elisabeth Waters has a long article on copyright in the very last issue of Darkover Newsletter in September 1995. It begins with a general description of copyright, and moves into something more personal, addressing "A Meeting in the Hyades."
An excerpt:
Some context to this statement:
The early and mid-1990s were a tumultuous time for fans of female professional fantasy writers and their fanworks. 1992 was an especially bad year.
* In 1992, things had come to a head with a fannish tussle regarding Bradley. See Marion Zimmer Bradley Fanfiction Controversy and the September 1992 letter Holes in My Yard, printed in The Darkover Newsletter. Six months later, Marion Zimmer Bradley's letter was published in Writers Digest: "Let this be a warning to other authors who might be tempted to be similarly generous with their universes, I know now why Arthur Conan Doyle refused to allow anyone to write about Sherlock Holmes. I wanted to be more accomodating, but I don't like where it has gotten me. It's enough to make anyone into a misanthrope." See Marion Zimmer Bradley's Letter to Writer's Digest.
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro had a dust-up regarding a fan and a fanwork. See A Matter Of Willful Copyright Infringement.
* P.N. Elrod, another professional writer of vampire fiction (and then-active creator of fanworks in the Quantum Leap and Blake's 7 fandoms) cautioned fans in September 1992: "Berkley Publishing has an army of lawyers with nothing better to do than indulge in pricy lawsuits against plagiarists and copyright pirates and I would make use of their skills. I fully realize that fan stories are written for fun and out of admiration for a character or the excitement of a dramatic situation. On the other hand, if someone came up and decided to "borrow" your car out of a sense of fun or admiration or excitement you'd probably be more than annoyed at them and call the cops. The same principal applies." See the whole statement at Open Letter to FYI from Author P.N. Elrod.
* In December 1992, Mercedes Lackey published a long statement in Queen's Own. Queen's Own Newsletter. See I'm about to bring the cold, cruel, mundane world into our fun for a moment. Included is the first release form. Citing advice from her agent, Lackey withdraws support for most fanfiction based on her published works. From a discussion of her "Official Policy thingie": "Sorry to bring the cold, cruel world in here, but let me put it to you this way before any of you decide that I am being unreasonable, paranoid, or a control-freak. Would you walk into my house and take one of my pieces of jewelry? Would you help yourself to my bank account? Would you sit down to dinner with me at my invitation, engage me in pleasant conversation, then as soon as the meal arrived, take my plate away from me? That is precisely what you would be doing by deliberately messing things up for me. STEALING from me, after I have let you into my world. There is no graceful way to put it." I'm about to bring the cold, cruel, mundane world into our fun for a moment
* In October 1992, Anne McCaffrey McCaffrey's Fanwork Policies addressed fans' "indiscriminate usage of our characters, worlds, and concepts," calling them "ACTIONABLE!"
==Some Sample Pages from the "Starstone" Printing==
File:starstone1inside4.jpg|art by, Juanita Coulson, from "A Meeting in the Hayades"
File:starstone1inside5.jpg|explanation of "A Meeting in the Hyades" by MZB
File:starstone1inside6.jpg|art by, Juanita Coulson, from "A Meeting in the Hayades"
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Category:Darkover Zines
Category:Lord of the Rings Zines
Category:Novel Zines
Category:1954 Fanfiction
Category:1961 Zines
Category:1962 Zines
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