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This is merely a collection of online resources that I've found helpful in the past, and which might perhaps be of use/interest to members of L.A. Please feel free to contact me with any suggestions you may have to add to this list.
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Lore
Elvenesse
"This site is dedicated to the world of JRR Tolkien's elves. Here is a collection of news and articles on all things elvish, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, as well as Peter Jackson's movie renditions of the books."
The Encyclopedia of Arda
"The Encyclopedia of Arda contains thousands of articles covering topics from J.R.R. Tolkien's world, some brief, some lengthy and some containing detailed essays and discussions. You'll also find a selection of interactive tools, including a chronicle to help you explore Tolkien's fictional history, and calendar to translate dates and events, a lexicon of names, a glossary of old and rare words, and much more."
Henneth Annûn Research Center
"A repository of canon/legendarium information on the people, places, objects and events of Arda."
LotrProject
"Lord of the Rings Project is a creative web project dedicated to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It is perhaps most known for the extensive and ever updating genealogy, the historical timeline of Middle-Earth and the statistics of the population of Middle-Earth."
Tolkien Gateway
"[TG] strives to be the most extensive and complete online resource with content relating not just to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien but also information on Tolkien-related images, adaptations, people, places, events, societies, and other works of scholarly and academic interest."
Elvish
Ambar Eldaron Quenya Dictionary by Helge K. Fauskanger
"This dictionary is intended to be a practical tool for the study of (neo-) Quenya. In fact, we list only the latest known version of a word, without the forms abandoned or revised by Tolkien or the older forms."
Ardalambion - Of the Tongues of Arda, the invented world of J.R.R. Tolkien (Helge Kåre Fauskanger)
"One of the most comprehensive sites about Tolkien's invented languages that you are likely to find on the net."
Eldamo - An Elvish Lexicon
"This collection of documents is a lexicon of Tolkien’s invented languages, particularly his Elvish languages, which are the most detailed. The collection is called a “lexicon” because it is not a dictionary in the traditional sense; it also analyzes the relationships between the languages and their development both within Tolkien’s fictional history and conceptual changes through Tolkien’s lifetime."
Neo-Eldarin Word Search
The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
"The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (E.L.F.) is an international organization devoted to the scholarly study of the invented languages of J.R.R. Tolkien."
Parf Edhellen
"This website is dedicated to Tolkien's languages, with an emphasis on the elvish languages of his legendarium. Our dictionary consists of imported glosses from a variety of quality dictionaries."
Realelvish.net
"I made this website to spread the correct use of Tolkien’s languages around the fanliterature community. Though it began for the needs of fanfiction writers, I’ve made it suitable for Role Players..."
The Sindarin Dictionary Project
"This work aims at being a complete Sindarin dictionary, addressing not only Tolkien’s fans wishing to understand the elvish sentences from The Lord of the Rings or to build simple sentences in Sindarin, but also scholars wanting to study Sindarin for what it is: the complex linguistic invention of a philology professor, and also a beautiful piece of art."
Hiswelókë's Sindarin dictionary
Vinyë Lambengolmor
A Discord channel dedicated to the fictional languages of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium; for beginners and professional linguists alike.
Essays and Articles
The Climate of Middle Earth by Radagast the Brown
(i.e. The Cabot Institute for the Environment, University of Bristol, UK)
"In this paper, I present and discuss results from a climate model simulation of the ‘Middle Earth’ of elves, dwarves, and hobbits (and not forgetting wizards such as my-self)."
Fishes of Middle-Earth by Philip W. Willink Ph.D.
"A Field Guide to What Species Would Be There as well as Those Seen in the Books and Movies."
The Healing Arts of Middle-Earth by tinw
"This lens focuses on "Healing in Middle-Earth," examining healing techniques, magic and items in that fictional world, based on excerpts from Tolkien's writings. My aim is to provide a resource for fanfiction writers and roleplayers trying to bring the world of Middle-Earth to life."
Laws and Customs Among the Eldar by J.R.R. Tolkien (Morgoth's Ring, The History of Middle-earth vol.10)
"Of the Laws and Customs Among the Eldar Pertaining to Marriage and Other Matters Related Thereto..."
The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien’s Equestrian Epic by Lynn Forest-Hill (tolkiensociety.org)
"The recent trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Lord of the Rings brought to the screen a succession of exciting and beautiful equestrian images..."
Magic in Middle-earth by Steuard Jensen
"I have attempted to classify all of the seemingly magical things and events in Middle-earth into groups of common character."
Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog by Michael Martinez
"This Middle-earth Website is a repository of articles, news, and resources for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth."
On Fairy Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien
"I PROPOSE to speak about fairy stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold..."
Ósanwe-kenta by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The essay [...] ‘Enquiry into the Communication of Thought’. Edited with introduction, glossary, and additional notes by Carl F. Hostetter." (Vinyar Tengwar #39)
(Vinyar Tengwar is a linguistic journal published by the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship.)
Tolkien’s Wizardry: How Metaphysics Molded Middle-Earth by Robert C. Koons
"Relationship between philosophy and Tolkien’s literature."
Artwork
Alan Lee - Illustrations to "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Ted Nasmith - J.R. Tolkien Portfolio
"There’s a strong desire in me to expand on [Tolkien's] imaginary world through the medium of illustration."
Miscellaneous
Amanye Tenceli - The Writing Systems of Aman
"This page is dedicated to the beautiful writing systems that in Tolkien’s works derived from the continent of Aman."
Glǽmscribe – The Tolkien language transcriber
"Glǽmscribe (or Glaemscribe) is an open-source engine and library written by Benjamin Talagan Babut, dedicated to transcribing languages invented by J. R. R. Tolkien (generally written with Latin letters and diacritics) into writing systems he devised in his works – such as tengwar, cirth or sarati. By extension, it can also be used with languages and writings of our primary world."
LotroInterface
Original Lua scripts (plugins) and graphical modifications (skins) for Lord of the Rings Online™.
Middle-earth Distances Table - Made by Ardamir
"Distances in Middle-earth taken from Tolkien’s texts rather than from maps."
Shire Reckoning
"The primary goal of this project is to visualize how the calendars described in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Appendix D relate to the Gregorian calendar."
Tengwar Telcontar
"The Free Tengwar Font Project aims at developing a family of general purpose fonts that cover J. R. R. Tolkien’s tengwar script and that are compatible with the Unicode standard."
The Tolkien Professor
"Listen and explore the sublime world of Tolkien with the guidance of The Tolkien Professor, Corey Olsen..."
The Tolkien Society
"We are an educational charity and literary society devoted to the study and promotion of the life and works of the author and academic J.R.R. Tolkien."
The Tolkien Wiki Community
"TolkienWikiCommunity is a new approach to provide an online platform for the ever growing fan-community of the literary works of the late Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien."
Discussion Forums
