J.R.R. Tolkien
Sites divided into Literature and Gaming categories
| Literature and Film |
| It's my opinion that J.R.R. Tolkien was perhaps the greatest fantasy world builder. He created a vivid world with languages, races, flora, fauna, geography and weather all worked out over a history spanning thousands of years. |
| The Encyclopedia of Arda |
| Tolkien Wiki Community, and the Tolkien Gateway Wiki. |
| The Thain's Book: a Middle Earth encyclopedia. |
| The Cave of Lost Scrolls: a Tolkien website directory. |
| One Wiki to Rule Them All |
| JRR Tolkien Information Center: a list of websites and resources. |
| Tolkien Encyclopedia. |
| The Tolkien Society seeks to "encourage and further interest in the life and works of the late Professor J.R.R. Tolkien C.B.E." |
| Ardalambion, a page exploring the languages Tolkien created. |
| Fellowship of the Word-Smiths is another site dedicated to the languages Tolkien invented. They've got a hellacious set of links. |
| The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship |
| Mellonath Daeron is a guild of the Forodrim (below) focusing on Tolkien's languages. |
| Eldarin wiki: editable webpage for Tolkien language wordlists. |
| The Tolkien Society Forodrim is a Swedish association for people who love the works of the British author and philologist J.R.R. Tolkien and fairy-tales in general. |
| The Sindarin Survival Project aims to disseminate information on the language, including a course for beginners. Includes some interesting links. |
| An essay on Music in Middle Earth, from the homepage of E.C. Hargrove. This site contains a number of essays, both on music and other aspects of Middle Earth. |
| An Essay on the Development of Middle-Earth Music by D. J. Fennamore, whose page, Elven Minstrel, deals with cosmology, music and other Middle Earth matters. |
| Tolkien's Monster Encyclopedia |
| The Scrolls of Orthanc: "useful information on Tolkien's Middle-earth covering a variety of topics which you will not find in the standard FAQ." |
| The One Ring/Tolkien Online: Claims to be the ultimate Lord of the Rings site. I don't know, because it takes so long to load on my machine that I'm out of time before I can explore. Looks good, anyway. |
| Planet Tolkien: Fan discussions in the UK |
| Lalaith's Middle Earth Science Pages |
| Lord of the Rings: the official movie site. |
| Finduilas' J.R.R Tolkien Page |
| Welcome to Middle Earth includes maps and language information for the world he created. |
| Pauline and Todd's Lord of the Rings website; includes useful fonts. |
| Barrow Downs |
| Tolkien Meta-FAQ is a unified index to several major lists of Frequently Asked Questions about J.R.R. Tolkien and his "subcreated" world of Middle-earth. |
| Another useful and rather extensive FAQ, by William Loos. |
| Shire Post: a quaint and curious site devoted to all things hobbitish. |
| A collection of Middle Earth Maps found on the web. |
| The World of J.R.R. Tolkien, including maps. |
| The Tolkien Professor: Discussions and downloadable lectures on Tolkien. Click, friend, and enter. |
| Talking About Tolkien |
| The Grey Havens |
| Etymology of the races. |
| Poetry from the Lord of the Rings |
| Tolkien: Language, Style and Poetry. |
| Timeline of Middle Earth |
| Lord of the Rings Project: Working out the family trees of... everybody. |
| Hall of Fire: an internet discussion community (not to be confused with the role-playing game discussion group Hall of Fire) |
| Tolkien used strands from various cultures and mythologies from northern Europe to weave Middle Earth. To see a lot of Anglo Saxon links, click here. |
| Old English in Middle-Earth: Tolkien as a gateway to the Anglo Saxons. And Part 2: Old English Words and Influences. From the Tolkien Society. |
| Calendars of Imladris, Gondor, and the Shire, and their adaptation for Gregorian. Plus another page on Shire Reckoning. |
| Outline of the History of Middle-Earth |
| BobMoCo Middle-Earth Glossary |
| Uruviel's Argonath, a LotR site that includes sound files from the movies. |
| Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza |
| Arwen-Undomiel.com |
| The Merchants of Middle Earth: article on economics. |
| Elves and Art in Tolkien's Aesthetics. |
| Some sites involving the Rohirrim: Forth Eorlingas, Meduseld, Horsemaster. |
| Éored: a Rohirrim webring. . . supposedly. |
| Henneth Annûn Story Archive |
| A collection of links, several of which are dead. |
| A site on Lord of the Rings costuming. |
| The Silmarillion in 1000 words. |
| Once More With Hobbits: Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
| These are some sites specifically geared towards role-playing games set in Middle Earth, whether ICE/Rolemaster or Decipher's Lord of the Rings RPG. Unfortunately, a number of them have disappeared or gone silent in the years since the movies. |
| The Official Red Headed Stepchild, er, I mean, the Official Lord of the Rings RPG message board. |
| Unofficial Lord of the Rings RPG forum. |
| The Hall of Fire is an unofficial but exceedingly useful web-based fanzine for the LotR RPG. |
| Other Hands: Journal for gaming in Middle Earth. |
| Other Minds: Online fan magazine devoted to roleplaying in Middle Earth. |
| The Steward and the King exclusively supporting Lord of the Rings RPG. |
| One Wiki to Rule Them All |
| Middle Earth Role Playing Wiki |
| Tower Hills |
| Halls of Annuminas |
| Middle Earth Gaming Guild |
| Heren Turambarion is another gaming-related Middle Earth site. |
| Middle Earth Role-Playing Community: Some of the free ICE modules and such are reputed to be here. . . but bring a lunch, it's also reputed to be very slow. |
| Gandalf of Borg's CODA resources site. |
| Unfinished Tales.com is a fan site created to support Wargaming and Roleplaying in Tolkien's worlds. |
| Downloadable Fan Modules |
| Haerangil's Middle Earth site includes maps and name info. |
| Middle Earth Games: play by mail website; some of the info may be useful regardless. |
| Hither-Lands: a fan-run system for roleplaying in Middle Earth. |
| Ambarquenta is still another fan-built system for Middle Earth Roleplaying. |
| Lindifirion: Finnish site with maps and a campaign. |
| A Chaosium-style Middle Earth RPG. |
| The Decipher game ported into Unisystem rules can be found here. |
| Conversions from the Coda system to the Unisystem. |
| Legends of Middle Earth. |
| Middle Earth conversion for d20 (Why would someone do it? I dunno. But it's here for completeness) |
| For fun: If Lord of the Rings was a role playing campaign. |
| A related idea, the webcomic DM of the Rings. |
| Middle-earth related Fonts: Here and Here |
In memory of Karen Wynn Fonstad
Photo and original materials copyright 2005, Forrest Marchinton