fanlore

fanlore

English

Etymology

fan +‎ lore

Noun

fanlore (uncountable)

1. The history or knowledge of a fandom.
   • 1957, Ed Cox, "Torus Installment", Contour, Number 11, May 1957, page 7:

     But by this time, we'd remembered the location of Clifton's Cafeteria which is well-known in old Los Angeles fanlore.

   • 1981, Gary Deindorfer, "Group Sainthood", Boonfark, Number Five, August 1981, page 34:

     We have moved out of fannish lore and into questions of ontology. I have long been fascinated by anything having to do with the nature of existence, nonexistence, the interplay between the two — even more than being fascinated by discussions of fanlore.

   • 2021, Peter Cullen Bryan, Creation, Translation, and Adaptation in Donald Duck: Comics The Dream of Three Lifetimes, page 99:

     The identification of Carl Barks is a crucial part of the fanlore, and the subject of some mild disagreement.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fanlore.