fanlore

English

Etymology

From fan +‎ lore.

Noun

fanlore (uncountable)

1. The history or knowledge of a fandom.
   • 1957 May, Ed Cox, “Torus Installment”, in Contour, number 11, 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 August, Gary Deindorfer, “Group Sainthood”, in Boonfark, number 5, 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^[1], 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.