A Fan Work adaptation of The Lord of the Rings which seeks to expand on J. R. R. Tolkien's vision, mostly by injecting a good dose of humor and some much-needed diversity into the material. Sam and Frodo and Gimli and Legolas' Ho Yay friendships have been expanded into canonical romances, Merry, Pippin, and Aragorn have been made women, and Arwen is now the tenth walker who joins the Fellowship on their quest. In addition to this, many other, smaller edits have been made, mostly for the purposes of injecting some humor into the epic tale in order to offset some of the seriousness.
For now only existing as extensive headcanons and brief roleplays on Discord, The 'Verse still nonetheless has an abundance of material. In addition, The Hobbit has also been played with, mostly by turning some of the dwarves into women and bringing Bilbo and Thorin's friendship into the realm of out-and-out romance to parallel that of Sam and Frodo. Original characters also abound in this franchise, some of whom have been adapted from canonical Tolkien characters (Such as Melian from The Silmarillion replacing Celebron as Galadriel's spouse), and some wholly original characters (Awarthril, a love interest for Tauriel).
One of the biggest differences between this series and the canon material, besides the added diversity and original characters, is the changes made to Tolkien's vision of Maiar. In The Silmarillion, the Maia were godlike beings who descended into the Arda in order to help the Valar first shape the world. In this series, the Maia have been re imagined to be a sub-species of the various peoples of Middle Earth with extended magical abilities, who could take the forms of whatever group they were born into. In this way, their existence is simplified, as they are roughly equivalent to your average wizard. Characters who in canon had simply been exceptional of their species were reimagined to be Maia (such as Galadriel), and Maia characters have been reinterpreted as belonging to one of the species of Middle Earth as well (with Gandalf being a Man, Radagast being a Dwarf, etc.)
