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Tolkien, the man:

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National Archives officer service record for JRRT. From the National Archives: UK government records and information management. Link suggested by Branwyn-(TV).

Groups, Fan Sites

About Lord of the Rings - from About.com's Science Fiction/Fantasy section. Includes 4 pages of mostly serious LotR links about the books and movies, including JRRT's poetry, plus the less serious such as If the Lord of the Rings were an episode of Star Trek Voyager . Link sent in by Eowyn-(V)
Barrowdowns - fan site.
Cave of Lost Scrolls - down. Tolkien website directory
Council of Elrond - a movie site with parts that also work for the book fans: languages, Elrond's Library which is and includes an encyclopedia, maps, art. Fanfic. Poems that come straight from the books. Site suggested by a member of the Manwe realm of the communities, Matt Knutson
Eglarest - French-speaking Tolkien fan group
Elvish Linguistic Fellowship aka E.L.F. - group interested in made-up languages of all kinds, not just elvish, but mostly in Tolkien's languages. Special interest group of the Mythopoeic Society. Journals: Vinyar Tengwar , Parma Eldalamberon .
Endore - Franco Manni's web site for the "Endore" fanzine of the Italian Tolkien Society, loaded with Tolkien information. The web pages include info on Tolkien-related books in English. The site is in English, the fanzine in Italian. see also Franco Manni's book review over The Uncharted Realms of Tolkien.Franco Manni-(TV) is a Tolkien-only member of the Valar Guild, although the sites are separate.
English 318 : down. J.R.R. Tolkien Spring 2000 at Rice University in Houston, Texas - course syllabus, links.: by Jane Chance
Erynodil - down. LotR fan club. Includes the movies, photos, Andune's elvish lessons, Middle-earth recipes, and LotR links. Made and suggested by SheElf Archer. Best viewed in Explorer rather than Netscape
Hideout of Imladris - down. dictionary, articles, fanfic, poetry, pictures, music: by THOI Development Team, sponsored by Noldor.org . Kjell Arne Brudvik, Kjell Magne Gåsland, Daniel Rønningen
HobbitLore - down. seeing how reality and the stories of Tolkien work together.: by Paul Payne
Il Signore degli aneli Edoras - Italian fan site. Images, articles on the Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion, chat. by Thengel
la voce di Edoras "The Voice of Edoras". Italian Tolkien fan site with articles. Link suggested by Emanuele "Theoden" Scalzo-(TV)
Keepers of the Fellowship - Tolkien fan club and online gamers. Link suggested by Amillo-(Valar).: by Dora-KF
Land of the Elves - Not updated, unfinished, very slightly used forum. Tolkien fan site, movies, elf-centric, under construction :by Master Elrond
Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza - Tolkien fan club site, books and movies. Includes articles, quizes, links, forum, has members who game in a style similar to AD&D. by Philip Kooijman .
Lord of the Rings Fanatics Site - fan site. anyone interested may contribute. Small group at the time of this link. Book summaries not restricted to the trilogy. Lots of info is in non-text format. Tolkien bio. Bilbo guides the reader through a couple of tours. Quiz game. Art and media section;
Lord of the Rings Fantasy World - Devoted to Tolkien books and the movies, allows the building of a personal fan page. Chat rooms and forum for The Lord of the Rings fans available.
Lord of the Rings Project - started as a Tolkien character geneology and grew.
Losse Alqua - down. fan site. Articles on Tolkien, elvish, the books, the movies. Site hosted by Rem Tolkienna, made by dunadan JHS, aided by Orodreth Elensar, Grigory Deepdelver, Shorty, and Mayur.
LoTR Online : Lord of the Rings Movie and Tolkien news, professional site. Fan art, music, fiction, writing. The Gallery has the famous professional artists. Huge links section to Tolkien pages including our guild's Tolkien Encyclopedia: Interactive Edition, Annals of Arda, and Valar Guild index. Readers post movie news. Link suggested by James Wray. Sponsored by Blades by Brown. by Jeff Ledoux/Old Man Willow, James Wray/Fatty, Wahla Baggins et aliud
Lord of the Rings Wiki
Internet Tolkien Book Society - info on and reviews of books by and about Tolkien and Tolkien subjects: by Jesse Chuhta of the ITBS
Middle-earth Wikipedia
Minas Tirith - Forum, information sections on the forum.
Moonway - Russian group in St. Petersburgh, interested in all fantasy worlds, especially Tolkien's as the most developed. In Russian, with an English edition planned to come out in 2002: by Ivan Kotliarov and others.
Mythopoeic Society - fans of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams in particular, fantasy in general. Includes resources and many interesting links.
Numenore - Tolkien fan page, including articles. Has links to our Tolkien Encyclopedia as article reference credit.
TheOneRing.net - huge Tolkien site. Includes art, fan-fic, music.
One Ring: The Complete Guide to Tolkien Online - Virbius's One Ring. links to many Tolkien sites, can vote for favorites. List of Tolkien's books. Tolkien movie news.: by Darryl Friesen
Sociedad Tolkien Peruana - Peruvian Tolkien Society. In Spanish.
Stratics - for Tolkien news in French.
Tolkien and Middle-earth - web page for Discussion Board group including a time line of JRR Tolkien's life. By Marina. Listed here under Tolkien/Groups, Fan Sites
Tolkien Library : partial but amazing listing of Tolkien's works. List suggested by page creator, Pieter Collier.
Tolkien GatewayWikipedia: sections: Chat, Wiki Tolkien encyclopedia, News , Search
Tolkien Online - fan site for books and movie, message board. Art.
Tolkien Society - Tolkien fans exchanging resource material physical and online, and meeting live.
The Tolkien Wiki Community
The Township of Bree - book and movie info, movie pictures, LotR cartoons. Suggested by Ms. Kimbo Baggins, site manager.
Valar Guild - Tolkien and online gaming group. Online Tolkien fans worldwide who game, chat about Tolkien's world, and put up Tolkien-related work and game info on the web. It keeps up a Games Site and a Tolkien Site, free to view by all.
    The Tolkien site includes the Tolkien Encyclopedia, art in theGlittering Caves of Aglarond, Stories, Poetry, and Humor . Some of the group meets on Discord every Sunday, starting 5pm EST to discuss Tolken and various games, with transcripts on the News, a page which tells what's happening from all parts of the guild although each part has its own specialty news page as well. A Forum is up for a variety of topics including Tolkien, other authors, an ongoing role-playing text story, and online gaming. The Domain name is http://valarguild.org, paid for by Alatar-(Valar) who also provides most of the web space.
    See the Games page. The main game is the Lord of the Rings Online MMO, aka LotRO, where the Valar Guild has branches called "kins" on Landroval, Ithil, and Anor. In World of WarCraft, the group has small official guild branches on the servers: Lothar (Alliance, Americas) and Uldaman (Horde, Americas). Many members play other games together.
War of the Ring - Tolkien fan site. Forum, fanfic, fan art, site hosting, more.
World of Middle-earth, The - fan site. Articles and images.: by Johan Avard
Wraiths on Wings - Tolkien movie and book site with info on both. Forum. Requested link. Site by Haunted_Bre or just Bre
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Tolkien's Books and other Works:

Book List and Reviews: 2007, 2008 site, run by Arveleg-(V). Old site: Book List and Reviews - books about Tolkien with reviews, list of Tolkien books. Part of the Valar Guild's site.: by Lungorthin-(Valar)
Illustrated Tolkien Book Bibliography, An - . project to list all the British editions of the published writings of JRRT, with their illustrations and how they changed. Eyeing a project to do the American editions also. Of especial interest to collectors. by Neil.
One Ring: The Complete Guide to Tolkien Online - list of Tolkien's books. Links to many Tolkien sites, can vote for favorites. Tolkien movie news.: by Darryl Friesen
Marquette University's collection - listing of Tolkien manuscripts held at Marquette University, including donations from Christopher Tolkien.
Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics - includes a list of Tolkien's books and further resources. : by Carl F. Hostestetter for E.L.F., the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship.
Tolkien.co.uk - Tolkien site by Harper Collins Publishers, editors for Tolkien
Tolkien's Haven - Tolkien bio including pics; list of Tolkien's books; encyclopedia; images; forum . : by ex-Anarion, aka James O'Connell, aka jamestomas.

Books about Tolkien

Book List and Reviews: Book list of books about Tolkien, with reviews, list of Tolkiens' books. Valar Guild
Surveying Middle-earth: blog survey of Tolkien fans for an upcoming book, requesting input. Old link. by David Berberick

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Encyclopedias, Tolkien FAQ, Article Collections:

(Down check made on Aug. 28, 2009.)
Annals of Arda - Tolkien encyclopedia with extensive articles, some of his own original illustrations, linked back and forth with the Valar Guild Tolkien Encyclopedia: Valar Guild site by Elatan-(Valar) fka Amillo -(Valar)
The Archives of Middle-earth - down. The Tolkien A-Z at Daereth's Tolkien OnLine. Much is still in subjects, despite the name. Has much still to go, as do most Encycs. This is the revised and updated Russian Middle-earth Archives. Forum. Movie section. English and Russian versions.
Ardanole: The Study of Arda - forbidden. articles, pronounced words. Link recommended by Hyarion/Srekal: by Ardamire.
Arwen Evenstar - problem. articles, stories, poetry, links about Arwen: by Elelome
Barrow Downs - encyclopedia, movie news, fonts, Shire Calendar, fan fic, fan art, forum. Link suggested by Anarion-(V). Page done by Ron Kittle, Jamie Sundquist, Joe Pirelli
Cabed-en-Aras - domain name lost. encyclopedia called Minas Tirith, movie news, art, message board. Some articles, quite a few paintings.. Link suggested by Anarion-(V). :by Thengel
Chronology of the Silmarillion - Silmarillion time-line. by MithrandirCQ
Council of Elrond - a movie site with parts that also work for the book fans: languages, Elrond's Library which is and includes an encyclopedia, maps, art. Fanfic. Poems that come straight from the books. Site suggested by a member of the Manwe realm of the communities, Matt Knutson
Creation of Tolkien, The - poem "The Mewlips"; First Age family trees; stars and constellations; a map of Beleriand that can be clicked on for who lived in that location. by Tomas Kullström of Denmark.
Dark Side of Tolkien - down. the villains of Tolkien's world
Electronic Tolkien Encyclopedia Project - down. last updated in June 1996. Restarted in the year 2000 using the old information. The What's New list of English articles still stopped in 1996 when I checked in Aug 2005.
Encyclopedia of Arda - Tolkien encyclopedia. Brought to the attention of the Links page by Tulkas-(Valar). Uses frames, maps, more pictures intended later, a huge number of short entries with the intention of later expansion. by Mark Fisher
Encyclopedia of Middle Earth - Source is mostly David Day's Characters from Tolkien. A few short descriptions, not being updated. Made and link suggested by Frodo Baggins (non-guild).
Festival in the Shire Journal- an online magazine discussing Tolkien and Tolkien-related works.
From Pointy Ears to Grima's Tears: A Tolkien Investigation . - careful research and thinking in articles on both books and movies. Some of the articles have moved to Squidoo to support LotR Plaza. LotR Plaza includes The Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library still in progress Aug 2009. By Ellen Brundage
Grey Havens - articles; quotes of entire poems, songs, and chapters; Tengwar and Rune fonts; movie news: by Cirdan (link contributed to this page by Gwaihir-(V), now Amillo-(Valar)
Gumby's index page - (now site map link). large areas on literature. Also areas on computing, music, jokes, and in Swedish. Info about JRRT (bad link, has a collection of JRRT links ) and other Inklings. Section on Science Fiction & Fantasy . Made by Calle
Hideout of Imladris - down. Tolkien articles: by Brudvik and others
Homepage of Eugene C. Hargrove - Tom Bombadil, Old Man Willow, other interesting articles.
Inklings - down. the writing club to which Tolkien belonged was the Inklings. This site tells about it and other SF/F topics.
His home page has discussions of both Fantasy and SF, quite interesting. by Calle aka Gumby.
J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth - articles. Link suggested by Irmo-(Valar)
JRR Tolkien Information Page - forbidden. last updated in 1997, but still has many workable Tolkien links
L'Encyclopedie d'Arda - down. Tolkien Encyclopedia in French, handled by a Tolkien group, Eglarest down, with their own interesting page.
la voce di Edoras "The Voice of Edoras". Italian Tolkien fan site with articles. Link suggested by Emanuele "Theoden" Scalzo-(TV)
Line of Kings - tree showing the line of the kings of Man: researched and made by Eru-(Valar)
Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library - down. LotR Fanatics's site section.
Lord of the Rings Online Lore Book - from the site for the Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG (game).
Lord of the Rings Project - started as a Tolkien character geneology and grew.
Middle-earth Mythology - down. A not-Encyclopedia and not-Discussion Board allowing readers to click on a name to add information and comments. It also lets the reader add characters. He has a link to both the Encyclopedia and Annals. Page made and suggested by Morten Goodwin Olsen
Mirror of Galadriel - Became a site for flags. Was a collection of Tolkien links.
Mithrandir's Tolkien Page - down. Tolkien maps, images, poems, and more. by Mithrandir
National Geographic - site about the real life influences on Tolkien's work and on the movie in New Zealand. by National Geographic
Numenor - down. Tolkien articles from intro to in-depth with small versions of much larger pics. Last updated Feb 1997.
Numenore - Tolkien fan page, including articles. Has links to our Tolkien Encyclopedia as article reference credit.
Quettamar - down. Tolkien information, including Languages, books, images, card game, downloads (espe check the FAQs), links. Well made, searchable. by the webmaster of Quettamar
Remembering Tolkien - down. Biography of JRRT: Valar Guild page by Tom Bombadil
Scrolls of Orthanc - down. Articles on numerous questions, Tolkien links, images, Index of Tolkien Class Notes down + images and essay all in fast-loading ftp: by Erik Tracey
Shire Lyceum - down. domain name lost. Clickable map; Art Gallery; Poetry; Real Audio music and readings; Discussion Board; Links to Tolkien sites and web rings; Sales of Tolkien's books and Tolkien-related books and artwork: by Silmaril.net
Storm Crow Co. - Middle Earth Middle-earth info links now lead nowhere. Adventures and Role Playing Information is a section from the Storm Crow page: AD&D 2nd edition RPG adventures in Middle Earth with additional info to help play, concerning Races which includes info on the Valar. It is slanted to RPG use, rather than exact Tolkien scholarship, handy for DM's: by Bill Marcellino
Talk about J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth: A Guide to Tolkien Discussion on the Web - restored to the web, but the link collection has not updated since 2003. link suggested by Irmo-(Valar)
Thain's Book - Hobbit and LotR encyclopedia, Third Age.
The Creation of Tolkien - (also listed as Creation of Tolkien, The)
Tolkien - down. Huge collection of Tolkien links, well-organized: by Netscape's Open Directory project
Tolkien Archives - collection of anything at all to do with Tolkien. Includes essays, biography, maps, charts, race histories. by Jeremiah Lewis Tolkiendil - French Tolkien site. Link suggested by Indis-(V).
Tolkien Encyclopedia - down. grouped by Ages of Middle Earth: by Christopher Winter
Tolkien Encyclopedia of the Valar Guild - Tolkien Encyclopedia articles are locatable Alphabetically, by Subject, and by Search. It includes a fun section for fan art, humor, music, poetry, quizzes, and stories. Project of the Valar Guild.
Tolkien Enterprises - Licenses the use for money of all things Tolkien. Includes a list of Tolkien names, places, things and events, which they claim exclusive right to in 1976. They picked up the rights originally for their movie, the animated one directed by Ralph Bakshi. : by Tolkien Enterprises, div. of Saul Zaentz Co.
Tolkien: Ents and Other Creatures of Middle-earth - many pop-ups make the articles somewhat hard to read. by Croninphoto
Tolkien Gateway - Tolkien Encyclopedia set up in a Wikipedia format. Articles are sent in by readers and edited by by both readers and the site's creater: by Hyarion Underhill
Tolkien's Haven - down. Tolkien bio including pics; list of Tolkien's books; encyclopedia; images; forum . : by ex-Anarion-(V), aka James O'Connell, aka jamestomas.
Tolkien Info Page - down. huge number of Tolkien links, compiling ended in 1997, but many links are still good. suggested by Bilbo-(V): by Eric Lippert
The Tolkien Meta-FAQ - index to several major lists of Frequently Asked Questions about J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth: by Steuard Jensen.
Tolkien Monster Encyclopedia - forbidden. encyclopedia of monsters in Tolkien's books: by Calle Mattson
Tolkien Network - down. The Tolkien Archives: Tolkien articles, pictures, music and The Lord of the Rings Movie Site: live LotR Movie news: by a web team of Bass (general webmaster), Costa, Lewis, and Martyniak for the Archives, and Bass, Barlow, Herbert, Lewis, and Schmitz for the Movies.
Tolkien Notes - down. discussion of Tolkien given in a convenient FAQ and less-often-FAQ'ed form
The Tolkien Professor.- recorded lectures from Dr. Corey Olsen, a tenured English professor at Washington College, whose PhD is in medieval literature and a long-time Tolkien fan. Link recommended by Daddy Twofoot-(V). Recommended again later by Maedhros-(V).
Tolkien Quizes - test your Tolkien knowledge or send in your own quiz: Valar Guild page edited by Varda -(Valar)
Tolkien Site - Tolkien Encyclopedia articles locatable Alphabetically, by Subject, and by Search. Fun section for fan art, humor, music, poetry, quizzes, and stories. by the Valar Guild.
Trivia Wars - Tolkien - Tolkien trivia questions: by Maglor-(V) aka Glorfindel, for Trivia Company
Valar Guild Tolkien Site - Tolkien Encyclopedia articles locatable Alphabetically, by Subject, and by Search. Fun section for fan art, humor, music, poetry, quizzes, and stories.
Valley of Singing Gold - Moved to Valley of Singing Gold. (continue through the ads to find the site, last updated 2004) Tolkien trivia, art, peoples, maps, translations, Tengwar alphabet, rings.: by Otter Whisker
Wikkipedia - Middle-earth Encyclopedia. It is part of a general Encyclopedia. Link suggested by Orodreth-V.
Xenite.org - Tolkien information resources
Xenite.org: Essays - moved to Parma Endorian. Parma Endorian is now a free e-book. essays on Tolkien subjects: by Michael L. Martinez
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Languages, Names, Runes, Dictionaries:

section links tested Aug. 31, 2009.

Amanye Tencili - the Tengwar of Feanor and of Rumil. Link suggested by Pengolodh-(V).Created by Måns Björkman © 2005
Ambar Eldaron - pdf wordlist dictionary of Sindarin-English, English-Sindarin. Link suggested by Galdor-(V) March 2012. The home site is Ambar Eldaron, part of their site is in English. They include Helge K. Fauskanger's wordlist also found on his site of the Ardalambion.
Ardalambion - *All* the languages of Tolkien, highly recommended. Or you can now type ardalambion.com. Another link with pop-ups. Grammar for each of the languages. Quenya-Elvish and Elvish-Quenya downloadable wordlists, updated now and then. Elvish thesaurus. Check out his pdf for Elvish-Quenya. Discussion board: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/.: by Helge Fauskanger
Ardanole: The Study of Arda - down. forbidden. articles, pronounced words. Link recommended by Hyarion/Srekal: by Ardamire. [Was on this university's site.]
Barrow Downs - encyclopedia, movie news, fonts, Shire Calendar, fan fic, fan art, forum. Link suggested by Anarion-(V). Page done by Ron Kittle, Jamie Sundquist, Joe Pirelli
Council of Elrond - a movie site with parts that also work for the book fans: languages, Elrond's Library which is and includes an encyclopedia, maps, art. Fanfic. Poems that come straight from the books. Site suggested by a member of the Manwe realm of the communities, Matt Knutson
Elvish Linguistic Fellowship - E.L.F. website: special interest group of the Mythopoeic Society. Link contributed by Elwing-(V)
Elvish Linquistics List - E.L.F.: Discussion board of the Elfling group
Fellowship of the Word-Smiths - English and French versions for this website. Prose and poetry in any JRRT language. Examples of Elvish vocabulary and grammar. Elvish and other Tolkien languages from the Peter Jackson movie. By Ryszard Derdzinski (Galadhorn Elvellon), helpers: Tomasz Gubala, Boris Shapiro, Gildor Inglorion. Associated with E.L.F. website for space, but separate otherwise.
Grey Company - language loosely based on Tolkien's. Pleasant music. (link contributed by Eomer-(V)): by Talanithus Tarant
Grey Havens - articles, Tengwar and Rune fonts, movie news (link contributed to this page by Gwaihir-(V), who is now Amillo-(Valar)): by Cirdan
Hisweloke's Sindarin Dictionary - Hiswelókë's Sindarin dictionary - Sindarin dictionary project in English and French. Includes a word search. Daily limit due to heavy use. Link sent in by Arathorn-V, Elrond-V
Langmaker - down. this site is experiencing technical difficulties. "the art of language making", Tolkien included. Link contributed by Elwing-(V)
Learn Elvish - down. Now for online training. Learn Elvish. : by Tina, Cody, and Taylor. Link contributed by Elwing-(V)
L'Encyclopedie d'Arda - down. server can't be found. Tolkien Encyclopedia in French, handled by a Tolkien group, Eglarest.
Lore Book of the High Elven Tongue - *All* about the Quenya elvish language: page by Beren-(Valar) (previously Tulkas-(Valar))
Mellonath Daeron - the language guild of Forodrim. Includes: "Some Useful Elvish Words and Phrases" aka Elvish Phrasebook". They study the elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin, and the writing systems Tengwar and Cirth
Names in the Works of Tolkien - down. not found. Names in Tolkien which may have had Semitic and Egyptian influences: by John Webb
The Nine, The Terrible, The Nazguls of Mordor - down. Server not found. Entertaining. Names and biographies of the Nazgul, a little from Tolkien but mostly from the game by Iron Crown Enterprises, well-done and appearing real. The card game names and histories are often used online where needed since Tolkien did not fill this in much. Caveat: some of the information is incorrect, as saying that Gollum escaped on his own. Adunaphel as a female is not suggested in any way in Tolkien, who said all nine had been kings of Men. This site is very helpful in understanding the heavily used non-Tolkien ringwraiths. by Jonas Astrand et aliud. Link suggested by Elatan-(Valar)
Omentielvo: The International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages - Link to book for sale of language conference papers including a Google preview. Link recommended by Indis-(V).
Parma Tyelpelassiva - includes language courses on Sindarin, Quenya, and Adunaic. Link recommended by Ar-Pharazon-(V), Luthien-(TV).
Quenya Lapseparma - name book. Take English names and translates them to Quenya Elvish. Link found by Orodreth-(V). Site by Ales Bican.
Quettaparma Quenyanna - word list of English to Quenya and Quenya to English by Beren-(V) from his Lore Book of the High Elven Tongue. Still up Nov. 30, 2007 even after moving the Lore Book to a blog. It may eventually be written over or dropped by the old server, to our loss. We put up a mirror site English-Quenya and Quenya-English for it on the Valar Guild's language page.
Quettaparma Quenyanna / - same name for another word list of Quenya, as a pdf, by Helge Fauskangar of Ardalambion fame. Link suggested by Arien-(Valar) Jan. 8, 2017.
The Sindarin Dictionary Project - also called Hisweloke, listed above.
Tengwar Textbook - How to use the Tengwar runes including what they are, a textbook, use in Quenya and Sindarin. Link from Chris McKay, the author.
A Tolkien Dictionary - Etymologies of names of people and places. 2002. Taken from the indices of the LotR and Sil by Robert Ireland, adviser Lalaith.
Tolkien Languages - Valar Guild site including dictionaries, role-playing suggestions, translations.
Valley of Singing Gold - Tolkien trivia, art, peoples, maps, translations, Tengwar alphabet, rings.: by Otter Whisker
Writing Systems of Aman - down. forbidden. Tengwar and Sarati systems of Tolkien language. Link sent by Anarion-(V). :by Måns Björkman
YaTT: Yet Another Tengwar Tool - down. goes to another site. tool to type in and transcribe documents in Tengwar. By BLiZZARD; Daniel Steven Smith, Måns Björkman, Harri Perala, and Josh Griffing
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Tolkien Maps:
Many maps are now down due to the legal department representing the Tolkien Estate.

Alvarsson's map of Arda - down. clear and beautiful digital art map of Arda. The map maker, Jonatan Alvarsson, has a home page at Gecko Artist .
Annals of Arda: Maps - down. maps and images of Tolkien's universe: by Amillo-(Valar)
Council of Elrond - a movie site with parts that also work for the book fans: languages, Elrond's Library which is and includes an encyclopedia, maps, art. Fanfic. Poems that come straight from the books. Site suggested by a member of the Manwe realm of the communities, Matt Knutson
Creation of Arda, The - clickable map of Beleriand included. by Tomas Kullström of Denmark.
Files - down. downloadable clickable Tolkien maps included with other files. Valar Guild page by Aule-(Valar)
Isildur - includes his map of Arda while still flat. by Brian Crawford.
    Nov. 11, 2008 letter: "I am the author of Isildur.  I wanted to let you know that I have published a second edition. Several readers of the first edition told me of a number of things in my book that conflict with things that Tolkien wrote. With the help of several other Tolkien fans, I have now corrected all those errors. Some of the changes were major and required new chapters, so it is quite different from the previous version. The book is available for sale at: www.lulu.com\BrianCrawford. It is available in both paperback and hardcover. I hope to have good literary Spanish and German editions available soon."
JRR Tolkien Middle Earth Lord of the Rings - down. map at the time Frodo set forth. By David Dow from the Rolozo page. Was on this university's site.
JRR Tolkien Page - down. Clickable Tolkien maps
Map of Middle-earth - interactive map by Daniel Reeve.
Rolozo Tolkien Maps - down. maps by the ton
Shire Lyceum - Clickable map; Art Gallery; Poetry; Real Audio music and readings; Discussion Board; Links to Tolkien sites and web rings; Sales of Tolkien's books and Tolkien-related books and artwork: by Silmaril.net
Valley of Singing Gold - Tolkien trivia, art, peoples, maps, translations of words, Tengwar alphabet, rings.: by Otter Whisker. Last update 2004.
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Characters
Links to sites about one or only a few of Tolkien's characters. See also Fan Fiction
Bombadil, Tom:
    Tom Bombadil Links
Legolas:
    Essays by Ellen Brundige:
        Legolas of Mirkwood: Prince Among Equals - essay by Ellen Brundige. That link now jumps to a new site with an updated version of the aritcle.
        The Boy with the Bow - Archery-enthusiast's guide to Jackson's film of the Fellowship of the Ring. by Ellen Brundige This link also redirects to this new site.
    Speaking of Legolas... -. Essay by Michael Martinez. Article moved to merp.com..
Lungorthin:
    Knights of Legend - Role-playing Lungorthin. Link suggested by Lungorthin-(Valar) (sauron(AT)insightbb.com)
    Everything2 - description. Link suggested by Lungorthin-(Valar)
    The White Council Link suggested by Lungorthin-(Valar)
    La Web de Armenos - In Spanish. Section including Lungorthin . Link suggested by Lungorthin-(Valar)
    Angband - See under Monsters. In the search, type Lungorthin. Role-playing description. Link suggested by Lungorthin-(Valar)
    Dragons in the Writings of Tolkien - link suggested by Eonwe-(Valar)
    Yuzuklaryn Efendysy - Karakterler - character page lists Lungorthin under Maiar. Link suggested by Lungorthin-(Valar)
    Hierax's Middle-earth Role-playing with the Hero System - listing of heroes for this MERP includes Lungorthin under Maiar. Link suggested by Lungorthin-(Valar)
    Mankind Massively Multiplayer Game (MMOG) - Mordor section - Members includes Lungorthin as Maia. Link suggested by Lungorthin-(Valar)
Thranduil:
    Thranduil: King of Mirkwood - Article about Thranduil. Fanlisting. Link suggested by Thranduil-(V). Page by Ciendriel with contributions.
Tom Bombadil - see Bombadil, Tom

Discussion Boards / Forums

Aragorn's Tolkien Club - discussion group with an active message board . It also has a web site which still is still working on content at this writing.: by PippenTook, aragorn_of_lothlorien, and lord_kucate
Barrow Downs - encyclopedia, movie news, fonts, Shire Calendar, fan fic, fan art, forum. Link suggested by Anarion-(V). Page done by Ron Kittle, Jamie Sundquist, Joe Pirelli
Elvish Linquistics List - Discussion board of the Elfling group concerning Tolkien's languages
High Elves - Discussion Board mostly about the Lord of the Rings movie: by Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Lord of the Rings: New Anime Movie - movie being made free to the internet by Dariusz Gabryelewicz . Project underway and discussed here: by DarGab
Lord of the Rings Trivia Board - fun Discussion board with lots of LotR trivia questions: by BubbleMakersDream2
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers 2002 - TT movie, including EE (Extended Edition) : by Internet Movie Database
Lost Fellowship, The - Forum. Roleplay. Tolkien's world discussions, fan fic recommendations..
Minas Tirith - Forum, information sections on the forum.
Northern Warriors - movie discussion forum section, including LotR. Canadian gaming group
Tolkien Weekly - drabble stories. Challenges issued on Mondays. Livejournal
Valar Guild - old Discussion Board on Yahoo, still in some use, kept clear of spam: Where members can post Tolkien chat and game news: Valar Guild discussion board
Valar Guild - current Message Board: Forum on proboards, Tolkien and gaming discussions.
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Poetry:

LoTR Online : Lord of the Rings Movie and Tolkien news, professional site. Fan art, music, fiction, writing. The Gallery has the famous professional artists. Huge links section to Tolkien pages including our guild's Tolkien Encyclopedia: Interactive Edition, Annals of Arda, and Valar Guild index. Readers post movie news. Link suggested by James Wray. Sponsored by Blades by Brown. by Jeff Ledoux/Old Man Willow, James Wray/Fatty, Wahla Baggins et aliud This original creator group has changed but the page remains.
Tolkien-Inspired Poetry - original poetry: Valar Guild page edited by Varda-(Valar)
Imladris Poetry - poetry written from the elves' point of view: by Imladris MUSH group
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Fan Fiction

Aragorn and Legolas - The Mellon Chronicles - fan fiction, no slash. Articles. Maps. Name generator. Shop. by Cassia and Siobhan.
Barrow Downs - encyclopedia, movie news, fonts, Shire Calendar, fan fic, fan art, forum. Link suggested by Anarion-(V). Page done by Ron Kittle, Jamie Sundquist, Joe Pirelli
Borderland - fanfiction archive for Lord of the Rings crossover and modern day fiction. Includes Hobbit and Silmarillion. All genres and ratings. Started Oct 2005.
Council of Elrond - a movie site with parts that also work for the book fans: languages, Elrond's Library which is and includes an encyclopedia, maps, art. Fanfic. Poems that come straight from the books. Site suggested by a member of the Manwe realm of the communities, Matt Knutson
Elf Castle In the Sky - LotR fan fiction. Site by TrinitytheSheDevil (see also Haven of Dreams)
Emyn Arnen - Eowyn and Faramir fanfic site, includes book info, art, links. Link from The Rose of Ithilien, fellow Tolkien fan. by Maggie
Eternal - Legolas fan fic collection, high quality. Inactive since March 14, 2005, but still up. Hosted on intense-illusions.net. site by Amie.
Fan Fiction.net . Includes Tolkien-inspired stories. See them under Books/Lord of the Rings. Link first contributed by Elaine
Haven of Dreams - archive and submissions. Includes LotR fan fiction section, plus videos, icons, and others. site by Rhonda and TrinitySheDevil (see also Elf Castle in the Sky).
Henneth Annun - Tolkien Fanfic and essays. by the Henneth Annun Writers Group
Imperial Fiction, Lord of the Rings - short stories based on the Lord of the Rings, under construction: by Imperial Fiction
Isildur - the conflict that brought about the end of the Second Age. Includes a map by the author. The Grey Havens also has this copy of it. Copyright 1996 by Brian K. Crawford
Nov. 11, 2008 letter: "I am the author of Isildur. I wanted to let you know that I have published a second edition. Several readers of the first edition told me of a number of things in my book that conflict with things that Tolkien wrote. With the help of several other Tolkien fans, I have now corrected all those errors. Some of the changes were major and required new chapters, so it is quite different from the previous version. The book is available for sale at: www.lulu.com\BrianCrawford. It is available in both paperback and hardcover. I hope to have good literary Spanish and German editions available soon."
LotR Family Time - fan fiction by Washow, concerning Aragorn, the family love of Imladris, and friendship. MC. March 2006. site by Washow
More Washow links: FanFiction.net
LoTR Online : Lord of the Rings Movie and Tolkien news, professional site. Fan art, music, fiction, writing. The Gallery has the famous professional artists. Huge links section to Tolkien pages including our guild's Tolkien Encyclopedia: Interactive Edition, Annals of Arda, and Valar Guild index. Readers post movie news. Link suggested by James Wray. Sponsored by Blades by Brown. by Jeff Ledoux/Old Man Willow, James Wray/Fatty, Wahla Baggins et aliud
JRR Tolkien Information Page - not updated since 1997, but still has working links to Tolkien online texts, periodicals, parodies, articles, and societies current at that time. Under linguistics, it has the Lord's Prayer in Quenya
Middle-earth Fan Fiction Archive - stories both long and short, poetry, art, message forum.
Moonway - Russian page with very little English. Fantasy fiction, including their Russian translation of the Valar Guild's Tolkien-inspired Story page.
Naice a Nilme - "Pain and Friendship": archive that harbours Aragorn and/or Legolas centered angst, drama and torture stories. No slash. Associated with Aragorn Angst forum, or AA, but takes others as well. site by Michelle
No Man's Pity - Eowyn fan site, fan fic, pics. by Azar, archivist
One Ring.net - fan fiction section of this huge site
Rivendell Archives - fan fiction in three categories: pre-Fellowship of the Ring, during Lord of the Rings, post-Return of the King.
The Silmarillion Series - a suggested adaptation for how to put the Silmarillion, Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings on television, by episode with credited images from around the web as illustrations.
Stories in Imladris - by Imladris MUSH group
Stories of Arda - all characters and books. G-R ratings only, non-slash. Many authors and stories. Marked if complete or not. Site by Nilmandra and Rorrah
Tales of Middle-earth - (TOME). Fiction set in Middle-earth. Contact is "potionmistress"
Tales from Middle-earth: Stories - LotR fan fiction, art. Slash-free. Updated Jan. 5, 2004. Site by arcticfox42 and Aliaself
Teitho - "Write": monthly fan fiction contest for Aragorn and/or Legolas stories, the twins, Elrond, Glorfindel, Thranduil, ... Run by Aragornwriter
Valar Guild: Poetry - poetry of all lengths set in Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Valar Guild: Stories - stories of all lengths set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, filling in the many places he left for us to guess at. Webwork by Varda-(Valar)
Xenite.org - Tolkien information resources, includes section of Tolkien fan fiction
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Music, Sound Clips:

Tolkien-inspired musicians:
Audio Samples from film based on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (animated version) - link contributed by Irmo-(Valar): by Tomas Wallin from Wallin's Homepage Battlelore - band with song related to the Lord of the Rings, sample MP3's. Costumed band: photos including warriors, elf girl, with settings in caves, against clouds, and in the woods. Link suggested by Turgon-(V) of Hungary.
Blind Guardian - band that has songs relating to the Lord of the Rings, by following Discography/Nightfall in Middle-earth (lyrics based on the Silmarillion!). Link suggested by former Bilbo-(V) . by Blind Guardian and 3 webmasters
Brobdingnagian Bards : Celtic Renaissance duo. Also on MP3.com page, very popular, with the CD, Memories of Middle-earth . Free samples from "Tolkien", "Mordor", and "Shadowfax".
Exodus -
Fathom : Musical group, Fathom, Celtic rock band. Also listed on the MP3.com page with the song, " Two Towers ", inspired by the Two Towers book. Lyrics. Free download. Link suggested by Carlos Bermudez
Family on Board Real Audio - see section on JRRT for real audio of the Prof reading a description of Gollum :
Finntroll -
Fonix Music - Hobbit CD music can be ordered here - link contributed by Amillo: by Fonix Music
Gandalf Greyhames's Middle-earth Archive - includes sound clips from the BBC radio reading of Lord of the Rings, other midis, Tolkien images: Valar Guild page by Frodo-(V)
Iced Earth -
The Led Zeppelin and JRR Tolkien Relations Page - contents last updated in Sept 1998. Each set has an illustration, the lyrics alone, then a breakdown of how the writers believe the lyrics go with Tolkien's stories. Link suggested by Folca-(V). :by Scott Selisker
Lord of the Rings soundtrack on YouTube. Link suggested by Meriadoc-(V).
JRR Tolkien in which he reads from his own books. Link suggested by Irmo-(Valar): on the page by Harper Audio.
Lothlorien.mid - midi found by Eowyn-(V) on Lost Soul Enya page: music by Enya
The Rings Project , Horvath's page. The Rings Project , MP3.com's page - narration and songs by Alan Horvath aka Alan Post about the Lord of the Rings including text of and about the songs. The text is interesting and free. The site advertises the CD's and sells them, requiring the site user's email before playing any music so they and their sponsors can send spam. The first CD's came out in August 2001 and can be bought from your local CD store or from this site.
The Road Goes Ever On - Tolkien music midis
Salon.com Tolkien section - MP3 readings by Tolkien: Sam trying to ease Frodo's hunger while he slept. The Mirror of Galadriel : Galadriel's farewell to the Fellowship. MP3's suggested by Meriadoc-(V).
Stairway to Middle-earth - Led Zeppelin lyrics's Tolkien allusions. suggested by Folca-(V).: by speedhe@mail.auburn.edu
Tolkien Archives - all things Tolkien, including readings and music. by Jeremiah Lewis
Tolkien Interview with the Professor, including written transcript. Link suggested by Irmo-(Valar): on the page News from Bree by Hartley Patterson
Tolkien Music List - all the recorded or composed Middle-earth inspired music he could find, even listing bands just for having Tolkien-related names.: by Chris Seeman

Rennaissance, Celtic:
Renradio - not quite Tolkien: Renaissance and Celtic music, non-profit radio site which can be listened to while working on the computer. Site suggestested by "William de Clare" of Gate's Edge, Canton of StarGate, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA : by Michael McDane Harris
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Images / Art:

(down check on Feb. 20, 2010)
Annals of Arda: Images - down. GeoCities no longer offers the free pages, the Tolkien Estate required Tolkien fans to remove most maps. Images of Tolkien's world along with its maps: by Amillo-(Valar)
Anu Laire's Art - includes Middle-earth related fan art and photos. MC
Art of the Ainur - down. On the Artistic Entropy server. Mostly Mellon Chronicle related art of all mediums.
Autres Mondes - timing out. many Tolkien images (scroll down) painted by Rodney Matthews, along with other subjects. Excellent. Link contributed by Amillo. Page done by Nicolas Muzet.
Blizzard Fan Art - Blizzard game fan art includes many races derived from Tolkien or used in his stories.
Bohemian Weasel -includes Tolkien artwork derived from the live movies. by Soni Acorn-Hender.
Dark Side of Tolkien - The villains of Tolkien's world
Dragons in Art and on the Web - includes Tolkien's dragons. A section from the huge IOS - Ancient History, Angels, Dragons, Mermaids and more . by Timothy Spalding
Elfwood - science fiction and fantasy art and fiction. Includes Tolkien, has a Lothlorien section. All pictures copyrighted, (permission from author required). The site allows a link to the Elfwood main page, but not links to the single pictures as it eats bandwidth. Link suggested by Simeon Long .
Garland, Roger - see Lakeside Gallery
Glittering Caves of Aglarond - Tolkien art gallery: Framed version. Valar Guild page
Halls of Tolkien - Images from Tolkien's books, listed by book with a short comment. Part of the Cyberdoors website: by Scott Powers
History and Pictures of Tolkien's Evil Characters - More baddies, with fine pics including good guys fighting bad guys.
Howe, John - personal site
JRR Tolkien Fan Art - online fan art
Lakeside Gallery: The Art of Linda and Roger Garland - The Garlands' site selling their work. Includes Seth Garland's.
LoTR Online : Lord of the Rings Movie and Tolkien news, professional site. Fan art, music, fiction, writing. The Gallery has the famous professional artists. Huge links section to Tolkien pages including our guild's Tolkien Encyclopedia: Interactive Edition, Annals of Arda, and Valar Guild index. Readers post movie news. Link suggested by James Wray. Sponsored by Blades by Brown. by Jeff Ledoux/Old Man Willow, James Wray/Fatty, Wahla Baggins et aliud
Luthien's Tolkien Page - Images from Tolkien's books, listed by book with a short comment. Tolkien images separate and as thumbnails with quotes. Excellent site.: by Luthien aka Sabine Berge
Nasmith, Ted - personal site
Rolozo Tolkien - magnificent collection of Tolkien images collected by Rolozo, a favorite link of the Valar Guild's Tolkien Encyclopedia: by Ryan Eric Lovett
Shire Lyceum - Clickable map; Art Gallery; Poetry; Real Audio music and readings; Discussion Board; Links to Tolkien sites and web rings; Sales of Tolkien's books and Tolkien-related books and artwork: by Silmaril.net
Spiderweb Art Gallery - a huge picture gallery including Tolkien art. This is the official site for the Hildebrandt brothers, owned by Greg Hildebrandt himself!
Thranduil's Palace - Tolkien images done by Blume, Hildebrandt, and Nasmith. Tolkien calendar art.: by Thranduil, fka Maeglin-(V)/Alatar-(Valar)
Tolkien Archives - all things Tolkien, including images. By Jeremiah Lewis
Tolkien Online - fan site for books and movie, message board. Art.
Torania's Tolkien Page - Tolkien art site, arranged by book. Link sent to our forum by Bill Ferny.
The Universe According to a Raving Lunatic - Silmarillion; Music, Links: by Tilion-(Valar)
Valley of Singing Gold - Tolkien trivia, art, peoples, maps, translations, Tengwar alphabet, rings.: by Otter Whisker
Wladca-pierscieni - Polish Warner Brothers? Fan art Gallery list/galeria. Fan art by Nata Drozdova. Fan art humor/varia in Polish.

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Lord of the Rings Movies

Journey of the Ring - ok 2009. a LotR fan film online, benefitting their fire station. by Andrew Gnagy.
The Hunt for Gollum - ok 2009. online movie probably coming out in May 2009. Trailers up. Link suggested by Eomer-(V).

Peter Jackson Movies, with live actors:

Scripts:
The Seat of Kings page : Transcripts improved by Rachel Lee from other credited transcripts. Written out on her web page.
    Fellowship of the Ring movie script
    Two Towers movie script
    Return of the King movie script - Link sent in by Laurelin Caline
Council of Elrond: left menu: Film Fun and Facts/ Scripts.
Weekly Script, The: Caution: download. Lord of the Rings is under Movies/L. It's a text download.
All Movie Scripts: Caution: download. Search for Lord of the Rings with title selected. If you then click on "Read [movie name] now!" it will download a pdf file, without asking where you want it put. Fellowship, Return . No Two Towers in March 2005 that I found.
Script Shack: Caution: purchase. Purchase paper version of LotR.script, which they purchased/collected from many sources.

More on the Movies:
Apple.com Quicktime Movie Trailers Theater - movie trailers in general. Includes New Line Cinema which makes the Lord of the Rings movies.
Billy Boyd - Official site. Actor who played Pippin. Interviews and current info.
The Boy with the Bow - Excellent! A traditional archery-enthusiast's guide to Jackson's film of the Fellowship of the Ring. by Ellen Brundige
Bruce Hopkins Official Web Site - Official. Played Gamling.
Cinescape Online movie news magazine, current and back news including "Lord of the Rings", "ElfQuest", and "Star Wars": by Cinescape
E!Online - Force of Hobbit: Tolkien movie news, interviews, reports. Link suggested by Feyd Rautha Harkonnen.: by E!Online
Elijah Woods - Official Home page of the actor playing Frodo in the Peter Jackson movies. Went down, not really official.
Elijah Wood Fan Network - fan page.
Fellowship of Lord of the Rings - movie cast fan site: by thewhiteladyofrohan (non-Valar guild)
Force of Hobbit: An Insider's Guide to Lord of the Rings - movie news, message board. Link suggested by Eowyn-(V).: by E! Online
Ian McKellan - Official Home Page site for the actor playing Gandalf in the Peter Jackson movies.
Jarl Benzon's Official Fan Club - actor played in LotR for three years as an Elf-all costumes, Orc, one of the Rohirrim, Uruk-hai, Army of the Dead, wildman, Gondorian soldier, stand-in and body double for Orlando Bloom (Legolas). Photo of him as Glorifindel on a Decipher card. His brother, Jorn Benzon, played Rumil.
John Rhys-Davies - Official site. Still in progress at the time this link made.
Lord of the Rings - by Ian McKellan. His impressions while acting as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films, plus Q&A and photos.: IanMcKellan
Lord of the Rings on tbs: Videos: made from clips of Lord of the Rings. Warning on one, but the rest are general audience. Webmaster resources with a small number of fine quality photos from the movies.
LegolasGreenLeafOnline.net : very large Legolas fan site. Movie. Down .
Lord of the Rings - Download of the Fellowship's original movie promo, stand-alone Flash program over 600K. Page by Arathorn-(V)
Lord of the Rings Movies - News of the upcoming Peter Jackson movies, great content, navigation, looks.: Valar Guild page by Aule-(Valar)
Lord of the Rings Movie Site - unofficial site with actual news about the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies, Tolkien trivia, off-the-wall rumors to make you laugh, auctions, and more.: Matthew Bass, general webmaster for a team listed under authors on the site, including Jeremiah Lewis
LoTR Online : Lord of the Rings Movie and Tolkien news, professional site. Fan art, music, fiction, writing. The Gallery has the famous professional artists. Huge links section to Tolkien pages including our guild's Tolkien Encyclopedia: Interactive Edition, Annals of Arda, and Valar Guild index. Readers post movie news. Link suggested by James Wray. Sponsored by Blades by Brown. by Jeff Ledoux/Old Man Willow, James Wray/Fatty, Wahla Baggins et aliud
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Official site of the live movie "Lord of the Rings": by the movie company
The One Ring - excellent site collecting movie news: by TheOneRing.net. Thanks to Murezor for the site link!
Royd Tolkien - Official site. Grandson of JRRT. Gondorian ranger in Peter Jackson's LotR.
Sandro Kopp's Official Fan Club - Official fan site. Actor played the elf, Gildor.
Sean Astin - Official site. Played Sam Gamgee.
Tol Galen - Lord of the Rings movie news, page made in New Zealand where the filming is done. Link suggested by Anarion-(V): by Beren of Tol Galen
Tolkien's Movie Picture Place - pictures from the Lord of the Rings movies: by Martin Staak
Tolkien Movies.com - P.J.'s LotR movies, talk about upcoming H movie. News, gallery, forum. Link suggested by Feyd.
Tolkien Online: The One Ring - movie news and links
Lord of the Rings and Other Things - photos from the Lord of the Rings movies, good links: by Keyser Soze/Dave
Mediatrinity's LotR movie trailer - quick trailer of 45 seconds, great reading by Ian McKellan aka Gandalf
War of the Rings - movie and book info, pictures, art. Link from Fatty Bolger, previously of LotR Online. site by Fatty and others
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Movie and Book Collectibles, Merchandise:
By the Sword - swords, clothing, collectibles. Second URL
Gioie.it - down 2013. LotR movie-based jewelry. Italian jewelers. Site in English, Italian, French.
Jens Hansen, Gold and Silversmith - Peter Jackson asked Jens Hansen to design and make the One Ring. Nelson, New Zealand.
Shire Post - coins and stamps inspired by fantasy and science fiction, includes Tolkien. Includes maps of the Shire and areas nearby. Message board including role-play style stories. Link emailed by D. Johnson
Medieval Collectibles - includes medieval clothing and Lord of the Rings movie items such as knives, swords, helms, One Ring.
Museum Replicas Limited - catalog of actual and fantasy medieval weapons, armor, clothing, books. Takes a bit of clicking to get to the photo, but it also has info and is worth the trouble.- by Museum Replicas, Ltd.
Mystic Caravan - down 2013. sections for Lord of the Rings and for Elvish Jewelry were pretty much the same, includes jewelry, cloaks and robes.
NewLine Shop - down 2013. catalog includes LotR and other New Line Cinema movie items.
The Shire Shop - down 2013. LotR movies, collectibles, figurines, LotR board games. Site by Blake Morphis
Sword House - down 2013. Link made to the Valar Guild. Real, historical, fantasy (including LotR), and movie swords, other weapons, armor, figurines, collectibles. By Sword Sales House.

Anime Movie Project:

Lord of the Rings: Anime Movie - down. Discussion Board on Yahoo. Anime movie was being made, free to the internet by Dariusz Gabryelewicz . Project used to be discussed here, with links to web sites on the subject. Volunteer help used to be requested. Art, descriptions from JRRT of people, places requested from the Valar Guild: by DarGab
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Hobbit and "Prequel" Movies:

Live movie, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh producing. :
Peter Jackson's Facebook
The Hobbit Facebook
Lord of the Rings Facebook now includes The Hobbit

New Line Cinema:
    Press Releases
    The Hobbit: The Official Movie Blog
       Photos - currently fan art and photos
       Videos
MGM
Hobbit Central - fan site for the The Hobbit movies. by Andrew Gnagy.

Plays set in Middle-earth:

Lord of the Rings - Lord of the Rings play in London. Photos. Next performance in 2011.
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Tolkien Humor

Tolkien in a Lighter Vei n : jokes and joke page links sent to and from the Valar Guild
Irregular Web Comic: click Fantasy for theme (starts at number 3) and keep clicking Next. LotR mixed with a D&D game: Legos and miniatures. Link suggested by Ar-Pharazon-(V). Comic by David Morgan-Mar
Twenty-Sided Comic: Archive for LotR , comics updated MWF. Photo-manips from the Peter Jackson movies.
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[Tolkien's Middle-earth: Games under Gaming below]

Middle-earth brought to the real world

A Low-impact Woodland Home by Simon Dale.
Refitting a Sailing Ship to become the Hirilonde by Ulmo-(Valar)
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Tolkien Web Rings

Quettamar an attempt to bring together all the Tolkien-related websites. Chris O' Prey

Writing:

How-to; Marketing; Research References

How-to:

Thesaurus:
Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Thesaurus - thesaurus plus, including word histories, word games

Grammar:
Elements of Style by Strunk and White - the whole book is online and searchable
Virtual Salt: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

Bibliography making:
Forms for Making a Bibliography - by Varda-(Valar)

Encyclopedias:
Britannica.com - complete encyclopedia along with news and links
Columbia Encyclopedia , Sixth Edition - year 2000's largest one-book encyclopedia, complete
Electric Library's Encyclopedia - free online encyclopedia, searchable
Encyclopedia.com - more than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encylopedia, Third Edition
Internet Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia of information available on the Internet
Wikipedia - Encyclopedia in many languages made by people online, not necessarily well-referenced..
Yahoo's encyclopedia list - list of encyclopedias found on Yahoo

Quotations:
Familiar Quotations , 9th and 10th editions - by John Bartlett. A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. The 9th is the original work, the 10th is the same with additions
The Phrase Finder - UK. Free. Phrases and sayings.

Research helper:
Home on the Web - Down. Changed: Link now goes to Xoom.com's help for web page making. Was: Sets up research by assigning volunteers to locate links; plans on essays later. Reviews of movies and books planned: Valar Guild page by Carcharoth, now Scatha-(V)
Information Please Fact Finder - Searchable archives
The Old Farmer's Almanac - farming, gardening, and cooking tips, weather info

How to Write:
On Thud and Blunder - Famous writer Poul Andersen's essay on writing Heroic Fantasy, where many new writers go wrong. His SCA and sailing experience adds to his practical knowledge of trying to do medieval feats in real life. On the SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) site.
Science Fiction Writers of America - home page

Marketing:

Marketing:
Writer's Digest - info for how to write and market your writing: by Writer's Digest, Inc.
W riter's Market - searchable, comprehensive market service with some free items as well, such as a writer's encyclopedia

Publishers:
Pearson includes:
Pearson Education for educational books, materials, programs
Financial Times Group for investments and newspapers
The Penguin Group includes Penguin: for all kinds of books and puts some of them on television, going into ebooks. For English publishing, it is number one in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India; number two in the USA and Canada. Imprints include: Allen Lane, Avery, Berkley Books, Dutton, Hamish Hamilton, Michael Joseph, Plume, Putnam, Riverhead and Viking.
Penguin USA has the same site with different URL's: 1, 2, 3:
Penguin USA: Imprints for adults include Ace Books (Science Fiction), Alpha Books(non-fiction and how-to, including Idiot's Guides), Avery (alt health, meds, fitness), Berkley Books (includes the imprints: Ace, Berkley, and Jove), Chamberlain Bros (non-fiction, kits, multi-media), Dutton (originally religious focus, branched out, non-fiction), Gotham Books (mostly non-fiction), G.P. Putnam's Sons (fiction and non-fiction), HP Books (non-fiction cooking and cars), Jeremy P. Tarcher (non-fiction), Jove (used to be Pyramid Books, now imprint of Berkley Publishing Group) (), New American Library, Penguin, Perigee, Plume, Portfolio, Riverhead Books, Sentinel, and Viking.

DAW Books - official site. Science Fiction and Fantasy novels only, usually over 80,000 words. Includes author and artist sites. Submission guidelines. Newsletter. New releases.
DAW Books - Science Fiction and Fantasy novels only. Guidelines. Site by Melanie Rawn fans.

Book Reviews:
wjduquette.com - ok 2015. book reviews plus, unpaid. Includes Tolkien, and that LotR is the reviewer's favorite book since he was ten. Also old and new text games.

Copyright:
USA:
Copyright Office: ok 2015
    Copyright Basics ok 2015
    ECo: ok 2015. Application processing site of the US copyright office. Can do it yourself, cheaper than going through third party "services". Third party services cannot speed up the copyright process. Big print publishers do it for authors as part of the service, so doing this personally is generally not needed or economical when going through them.
    Infringement claim, aka DMCA take-down notice. Best first to personally and politely request the person or site to take down the plagiarized item. If that fails, the Copyright office's Copyright Registry Infringement Protection will send the DMCA notice for you for pay (third-parties will cost more), or do it yourself free.
        If someone picks on your use of their material unfairly, you have recourse.
        "The DMCA Takedown Notice Demystified" ok 2015. by Ken Liu, on the website of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
    Copyright is generally not needed for unpublished work, as it is not yet put before a wide audience.

Agents

Literary Agent.com - 2015 Domain gone. Search for agents for your work, or sign up if you are an agent. Writers' forum. Monthly columns on what an agent is looking for in a writer, how a writer connected with an agent, and how work was published.
Writers Net - ok 2015. Resource for writers, editors, publishers, and agents. Search engine for agents, not necessarily good one..
Association of Author's Representative s - ok 2015, updated link. newsletter articles, handy links.
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Research References:

Book Sources

Bartleby - ok 2015. free litererature, references, poetry online.
EurekAlert - ok 2015. Online science journal, now requiring registration. Science, Technology, Medicine: by the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, the science society.
Google Books - ok 2015, now starts as a search for books for your personal library online. Free books online and downloadable as pdf. Books for sale and locations of libraries.
Project Gutenberg - ok 2015 (link fixed). free online books. A special project done by volunteers, typing in entire uncopyrighted books including Shakespeare. Includes instructions on volunteering.
Project Runeberg - ok 2015. free online Nordic literature. Similar to Project Gutenberg. Thanks to Amillo for the link.: by Linkoping University in Sweden.
see also Medieval Information
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Folklore and Mythology

Encyclopedias:

Costume Super Center's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures and Fabulous Beasts. ok 2015. link suggested by Aurora April 14, 2009.
The Encyclopedia Mythica - ok 2015. Encyclopedia with a huge number of listings. Made into a book and no longer on the web. Used to takes article contributions: by MF Lindeman and helpers
Project Runeberg - ok 2015. For Eddas in Scandinavian languages, search "Edda". Click Search English pages for English (or the dropdown box for the preferred language).
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Medieval and Ancient Information: Historical

Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts - ok 2015. Medieval combat techniques, philosophy, and ritual. Good links. Toronto, Canada: by AEMMA

Eddas:
Kindred Kreators - ok 2015. both Poetic and Prose Eddas. Link found by Fladrif-(V). Page by ? Founder Andrew Webb.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook - ok 2009. info on Medieval times used for classes, includes multimedia. Also goes to other history sourcebooks. Link suggested by Anarion. Page by Paul Halsall.
Medieval Names Archive - ok 2013,site shows untrusted 2015. by Joshua Mittleman.
Medieval Technology - ok 2015. "an attempt to provide accurate, referenced information on technological innovation and related subjects in western Europe
during the Middle Ages". Link suggested by Lady Ashlin of the Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA.
Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean, The - ok 2013 but kept timing out 2015. Photos of palaces in Crete. Link from Anarion. by Dartmouth University (timed out 2015)
Renaissance Magazine - ok 2015. info and links to more info about the Renaissance and Middle Ages. Link from Elwing-(V)
Society for Creative Anachronisms - ok 2015. international organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European history. The official site. - by the S.C.A.
Ooshirts - ok 2013. Link page: Renaissance Resources: Clothing, Books, Festivals and More.
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Medieval, Ancient, Fantasy: Sales

Monsterhedz.com - ok 2015. heads of monsters sculptured and mounted like trophy kills. Ex: Orc head mounted on a dwarven shield. Each head is an original.
Museum Replicas Limited - ok 2015. Excellent. Actual and fantasy medieval weapons, armor, clothing, books. Takes a bit of clicking to get to the photo, but it also has info and is worth the trouble.- by Museum Replicas, Ltd.
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Countries

American Memory - ok 2015. over 70 historical collections online. Some collections moved to this link. Connected with the Library of Congress. : by the National Digital Library
United States House of Representatives - ok 2015. Government page which contains a great deal of information, including websites of the representatives and committees, and what is going on in Congress currently. One page is for contacting a Representative.
US Senate - ok 2015. Government page. Contact a Senator.
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Medical

CNN.com/Health - health news, links: CNN News
Mayo Health Clinic Oasis - Site has a team of 1,200 physicians and other medical experts. Updated daily. Articles often have links to more research and info.
WebMD/Medical Library - medical info, ADAM Medical Encyclopedia , links
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Aerospace

Space Pages

Tarun Biswa's Physics page: physics. Includes games involving quantum mechanics. Hunt the elusive quarks!
CNN.com/Space - space news
Google maps: Mars, Moon
Guardian: Special Reports - UK online newspaper section with space articles and links. Link located by Meriadoc-(V)
Stephen Hawking's Home Page - Stephen Hawking's bio, lectures, books, news, next public appearances. Cosmology, physics, black holes, string theory.
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's home page
    Nasa Human Spaceflight : homepage for the International Space Station and all shuttle missions.
    Realtime tracking : where the Space Station and Mir are right now.
    Future shuttle missions : when shuttles are launching and returning
    Exploring Mars : Nasa homepage for all Mars missions.
    Nasa TV : where to watch space missions on the web.
Nasa Watch - Not a Nasa site
The Planetary Society - private US group pushing for private space ventures such as their space clipper
SETI - Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Space Central - Houston Chronicle newspaper: articles, videos, pictures about space missions
Space Chronicle -
Space.Com -
Space Daily -
Space News -
Space Online -
Space Views -
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Aeronautics

Aviation Buffs Website - Suggested by Meriadoc-(V).
With a Wing and a Lens - aerial photos made for disaster area relief by our own Meriadoc and his partner, Leroy: by Meriadoc-(V)
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General Research

CNN.com - news in many fields: including Sci-Tech , Space (such as new golden galaxy, object Varuna past Pluto), Health , World, Weather, and others. CNN links suggested by Eowyn-(V): CNN News
Dictionaries - search engine for online dictionaries, numerous languages. Click Dictionaries at the top and then click Dictionaries on the new menu, for a list for many languages. Link suggested by Anarion-(V). Page by Robert Beard.
Dictionary for German/English - online dictionary with search engine for German to English and vice versa. Link suggested by Anarion-(V). Page by Chemnitz University.
Scientific American - articles, interviews, exhibits, Ask the Experts: Scientific American Magazine
Time Magazine archives - search previous Time magazines for articles
The World Factbook - information concerning all countries, including maps.: CIA

Homework-oriented aids:
KidsClick - made by librarians to help younger kids with searches to do homework: Berkeley University librarians
SchoolWork.ugh! - older students of grades 7 and up. Younger need to go to KidsClick. Includes a search on Britannica.com.: Maureen Shields
InfoPlease - wide ranging information search: InfoPlease.com
InfoPlease/Homework - search engine for homework subjects: InfoPlease.com
Internet Public Library - librarians trying to make sense of the mass of internet info: University of Michigan
Math.com - how to do math, includes high school and college level also: Math.com company based in California
Dr. Math - K-12 math questions, plus college. Site very busy, so may receive no answer to questions; check archives of previous questions.: The Math Forum
FindHow - How-to on a very wide variety of subjects.
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Gaming:

Games - Who's where of which Valar Guild members are playing in which online games, including Reviews of various games. Main game is Lord of the Rings Online, secondary World of Warcraft.
Valar Guild forum for gaming and Tolkien.

Lord of the Rings Online - Middle-earth mmo set at the time of the Fellowship's journey. Player characters deal with what is stirred up in the Fellowship's wake and that which is going on around the world while the Fellowship stealths past most of it. Book quests and instancing technology let our characters move through time with the Fellowship's journey. The Valar Guild plays on Landroval, the player-voted and therefore unofficial rp server. This is our main game.
Library of the Randirim - LotRO-based stories, art, music (including the .wmv "No Boars in Evendim" apparently by Qrath or Redsatori). "In these pages are stored the accumulated works and writings from far and wide across the Landroval server. They are brought here, as many as can be managed, to provide one place for such lore to be stored and saved over time. Please feel free to browse through at your own leisure and don't hesitate to make your own contributions. There also exists in the Library a room of various OOC Guides meant to help new players learn about RP or just introduce some new ideas to others. It also serves as a repository of Tolkien-specific lore.

World of WarCraft - fantasy mmo with massive pop references. The Valar Guild plays in the Americas on Lothar server as Alliance, Uldaman server as Horde. This is our secondary game.

Diablo

Diablo and His Kin - Diablo, Diablo mods, and Diablo II links: Valar Guild page. Diablo III. Now part of the Games page.

StarCraft

Blizzard Entertainment - makers of StarCraft, WarCraft, and Diablo. Has a StarCraft map of the week.
StarCraft Compendium - down. All StarCraft Blizzard information links reachable from one spot: by Blizzard Entertainment
StarCraft FAQs - down. FAQs on StarCraft, the Campaign Editor, and BroodWars. Includes Tech Support: by Blizzard
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StarCraft: BroodWar

StarCraft/BroodWar - all links to Guild and other pages for SC and BW in one place: Valar Guild page by Varda. Now part of the Games page.
BroodWar Ladder Tournament - down. expansion of StarCraft: by Blizzard Entertainment
Happy Puppy - down. Game index including StarCraft as one word, so it comes after such two word items as Star Wars.
Strategy Central - SC/BW strategy, units: link contributed by Murezor, done by Blizzard

Star folk, see also links on other parts of the page to Space , Star Wars , and Star Trek
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Other Games: MUDs, MUSHes, MMORPG's, Cards, Tabletop, Online

Games - Who's where of which Guild members are playing in which online games, including reviews of various games sent in by players: by Eonwe-(Valar)

World of WarCraft (WoW)- MMORPG:
    Valar Guild's World of WarCraft - down. (GeoCities scrapped by Yahoo. branch page by Maglor-(V). See the new Games page.
    World of WarCraft - official site
    Allakhazam - World of WarCraft section
    Ten Ton Hammer - WoW info, with a hunter's Pet list including abilities and needs

Lord of the Rings Online (was Middle-earth Online): MMORPG called for beta players in June 2006. We started our kinship as soon as the first beta came up on Brandywine server, and migrated with each version to the current live game. From live to the present, the Valar Guild is on the Landroval server.
    Lord of the Rings Online. Official site.
    LotRO rp - Lord of the Rings Online based text roleplaying game by Valar Guild members, starting with "Scouting Ahead". Broken into parts like book sections as we complete an area. OOC discussion area in separate thread LotRO Tales of Lore. We started it while waiting for LotRO to go live, then kept going. Pre-release Discussion.
    Middle-earth Online - bought out and changed to Lord of the Rings Online. Official site. Includes info, developer diaries, screenshots, forum
    Middle-earth WarCry - Lord of the Rings Online information.

Lord of the Rings/Tolkien Tabletop Gaming:

Iron Crown Enterprises - no longer the Official Tolkien card game for role-playing; has other non-online games. Lord of the Rings game no longer allowed by Tolkien estate, as rights went to movie makers.: by Iron Crown Enterprises
Monsterhedz.com - down. heads of monsters sculptured and mounted like trophy kills. Ex: Orc head mounted on a dwarven shield.
Simcountry - free game. Link sent in by Thingol-(V)
Swirve.com - (problems with timing out). free games under Features/Games. Thingol recommends Earth 2025 and Utopia. Link sent in by Thingol-(V)
Synthetic Reality's Well of Souls , free game. Link sent in by Glorfindel-(V)
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Tolkien Online Gaming:

The Hobbit - new site (timing out. down?). For PC, PlayStation, Nintendo, XBoX, GameBoy. by Sierra
The Last Alliance - Also called TLA. Freeware, real-time-strategy (rts). Under development.: by Wildfire Games
Lord of the Rings Online - LotRO. old link: Lord of the Rings Online - Previously known as Middle-earth and as Middle-earth Online. Then bought by Turbine.Then bought by Warner Brothers.
    LotRO Lorebook
    Guide links
Middle-earth Enterprises, div of Saul Zaentz for licensing use of J.R.R.Tolkien's works.
Middle-earth Online - MeO. Became Lord of the Rings Online after Turbine took over. See above. Lord of the Rings MMORPG - Massive Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game in the world of Middle-earth. Release planned in 2004, then planned summer 2005. Link found by Eonwe-(Valar). : by Vivendi and Sierra game companies
Middle-earth Online. Tolkien multi-player game under development to be released in 1999. Nope. How about 2000 guys? 2001? 2002? Has Tolkien info. Another possible area into which the Guild could expand if Sierra wakes up, but they are thinking mass market now. More Middle-earth links: Middle-earth Stratics (down) for news and links, especially while the official site is down. Eglarest (down). Ok, see link above for Middle-earth Online. Now it's called Lord of the Rings Online and saying 2006 release. Live as Lord of the Rings Online! see above.
MUD Connector page lists many MUD's. Try putting "Tolkien" in the search engine to find Tolkien-based ones, a number too long to list here!
Other Hands: The International Journal of Middle-earth Gaming. 2005 message: "Tolkien Enterprises recently sent a cease & desist letter to the popular Middle-earth gaming support site, www.merp.com, to remove all content relating to ICE's MERP series.<>"
Tolkien Computer Games - listing of Tolkien-inspired games and helps. Link suggested by Beregond-(V): by Fredrik Ekman
Two Towers MUD (telnet://t2tmud.org:9999, http://t2tmud.org). "It's been going since 1994, with a diverse playerbase, constant additions and improvements, and a deep social background." -T. emailed this information Oct. 22, 2007.
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Non-Tolkien Gaming:

Dark Age of Camelot:
Mythic - makes Dark Age of Camelot

EverQuest:
EverQuest - graphic MUD for thousands of players by Sony. Monthly fee.

Quake:
PlanetQuake.de - about Quake, in German. Link from Anarion-(V)

Melmoth:
Melmoth - MUD. Text-based online game. Join in a Medieval Fantasy setting by our own Rumil-(V) as Maglor. Other worlds include science fiction, Star Wars. Site sent in by Rumil-(V).

NeverWinter Nights:
NeverWinter Nights - new link. official site. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) roleplaying game from BioWare, the developers of the Baldur's Gate series. Gamers can set up their own games for others.

The Realm:
The Realm Online - official page of the graphic MUD for thousands of players. Monthly fee.

Well of Souls:
Well of Souls - graphic world you can make. Orodreth is creating a Middle-earth world for the guild. Site sent in by Orodreth-(V)

Quantum Physics:
Tarun Biswa's Physics page: physics, by Dr. Biswa. Includes games involving quantum mechanics. Hunt the elusive quarks in Quantum Focus! Dare the Quantum Duck Hunt!
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Making Your Own Game:.

Hero Machine - make pictures of heroes for board games. Link suggested by Eol-(V). : by AFD Studios Jeff Hebert
Melkor's Domain - Apparently abandoned page, no art. New web page for anime art by Khamul-(V)
Mithril Miniatures: The Lord of the Rings - sells Tolkien miniatures both for gaming and for decoration/collecting. Has a painting guide. Articles on races and characters.: by Macroom Co. of Cork, Ireland.
Warlocke's Lair - paints the figurines for your board wargame or historical figures. Bullroarer-(V) is MadDoc on this site
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Live Gaming:

Dagorhir Battle Games - Live action as people in appropriate garb and reasonably safe weaponry fight Tolkien and Dark Age Europe battles. Includes locations, photos. Link sent in by Justin Fitzgerald of New Vision Studios
Lord of the Rings Fanatics Shop - Buy LotR costumes, accessories, masks for both children and adults.
Medieval Times - restaurant around an arena giving a show with knights using live steel and Andalusian horses. Interested in working as a knight?
Simplicity - pattern catalog for sewing. Includes medieval patterns to order. Link from Arwen-(V)
Society for Creative Anachonisms (SCA) - Official site. Live action. Medieval and Renaissance life and battles. Historical study and classes for practical use, Personas, Crafting, Tailoring, Armoring, Brewing, Barding, Music, Court, Battles from individual combats to wars complete with siege engines. Has links official and unofficial off into infinity. Link from Varda-(Valar)
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Movies and TV:

Lord of the Rings

Star Trek

Bobs Trek Database - down. illustrated articles about Star Trek cultures, races, technology, characters, and more. Fun interface.: by bobstrek
Klingon Language Institute - how to use the Klingon language. Art. Other resources. Link contributed by Elwing-(V)
Shawn's Base Camp - (no longer reachable by the author of the page). Star Trek home page, leading to many Star Trek subjects by the same author, linked subjects are disappearing: by Valar Guild member Eowyn-(V).
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Star Wars

Star Wars: Welcome to the Official Site - by LucasFilms
Jedi Net: For the Fans, by the Fans - unofficial site. Now it is just a video: by Jedi.net
Wookiepedia - Star Wars Wikipedia
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Matrix

Can You Fly that Thing? - Web building helps; Matrix movie; Weird Al: by Smaug (aka Neo) no longer a member
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Other Authors:

Piers Anthony - official page. Fantasy and Science Fiction
Robert Ludlum - official page. Deceased: March 2001.
L.E. Modesitt, Jr. - official page
Andre Norton - official page. Deceased March 17, 2005.
J.K. Rowling - official page. Uses Flash.
R.A. Salvatore - Fantasy
Clifford Simak - Science Fiction. Wikipedia article.
Christopher Stasheff - Fantasy and Science Fiction. Wikipedia article.
Allen Steele - official site. Science Fiction.
Roger Zelazny Fantasy and Science Fiction. Fantastic Fiction site.

Computer Info:

Computer America - radio show and website about what's going on with computers, where you can read and hear Alatar-(Valar), sometimes contests for a free computer.

Updates

Video Cards:

Nvidia® driver software update download page on Nvidia's own site.
ATI® driver software update download page on AMD's own site.

Intel:

Intel support home page on Intel's site. Includes drivers.

Software, programming

Files - down. Software downloads including Tolkien maps, Diablo mods, Diablo First Aid for restoring characters, Bnet Buddy for finding friends, ICQ, IRC with a Palantir script by Tulkas, AntiNuke, and Pkunzip. One caution: the Diablo Backup file appears to be slightly corrupt by several reports.: Valar Guild page maintained by Aule-(Valar); Namo-(Valar) contributed
The Valar Guild Map Page - down and gone. StarCraft/BroodWar maps for download: Valar Guild page by Tom Bombadil
Diablo Backup - down and gone. download this excellent Diablo character restoration program from the creator of Diablo Backup: Kevin Lambert.
Mirabilis ICQ - ICQ "I Seek You" main page for Mirabilis with latest downloads and info. Have to hunt through the spam, but downloads are there.
mIRC - IRC "Internet Relay Chat" main page for mIRC Co., Ltd. with latest downloads and info.
Roger Wilco - free software to use a microphone at the same time as playing an online game. Link suggested by Makar-(Valar): by Roger Wilco Co.
Can You Fly that Thing? - Web building helps; Matrix movie; Weird Al: by Smaug (aka Neo)
Petsburgh PSP - down and gone. Paintshop Pro 5.0 beginner class with links for evaluation copies of Paintshop Pro 6.0 and Winzip
Developer Resources for Java - java.sun.com Oracle Sun Developer Network (SDN). (Not to be confused with Java Script.
Time Tripper - Java demos and script by Jhanabi. Link from Melkor-(Valar). Fireworks: fireworks appear according to where you click in the black box, with random colors and drifting in the wind. Tells how the java programming is done.

Bots: (pretty much wiped out by Blizzard, due to much misuse)
Chat bot for bnet - now Java page. Was free chat bot for any person who can't get onto bnet because his Blizzard game disc is toast. Caution from Anarion: if you reconnect without shutting down the bot you don't leave Battle.net. Therefore, if you reconnect a couple of times logged in as Guest, don't be surprised if there are several guests in the chat room who don't speak and won't respond to you - these ARE you. Link suggested by Anarion. Now only works in special channels set aside by Battle.net. See also Raibot: Page by java.sun.com
Chewbacca Bot Homepage - down and gone.
Raihan's Webpage - down and gone. Raibots
see also Diablo /Saving Characters
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Translation Programs

(Use more than one translation program on any translation when possible.)

AltaVista Translations - Translates blocks of 150 words at a time or a web page at a time. Recommended by DainII
Free Translations - Translates a block or a web page at a time. Suggested by Gil-galad

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Nifty:

Hamsters - funny! Link from Anarion. by Hampton of Hamster Dance. Link now goes to a main site. Classic hamster dance list, original hamster dance.
Mind blower - down and gone. Stare at the 4 little dots in the middle. Link from Melkor-(Valar).: by Trinity UMC down and gone.
Error Message - the server couldn't find the page you needed and is manic-depressive and a slow typist.
Unitarian Jihad Name Generator - link sent from Elwing-(V), who picked it up from the Society for Creative Anachonisms emails.
The First Reformed Jihad Name Generator - oh come on, you were going to click this link from the above page!
The World According to Squarf - down and gone. humor page with a strong bite from an independent mind. Link from Meriadoc-(V)
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Web Comics:

Buck Godot, Zap-gun for Hire - Science-fiction webcomic by the Foglios. Recommended by Meriadoc-(V). Completed.
Chasing the Sunset - Fantasy. Young elf looks over a great portion of his world trying to find his father. Family fun. Suggested by Ar-Pharazon, who met the creator online, an old guildmember in another WoW guild and who no longer plays WoW.
Dreamland Chronicles - a person goes in what he thinks are dreams to a fantasy world called Dreamland, but it turns out to be an existing place more involved with the real world than he thought. Has CG art making it original and pretty. Suggested by Ar-Pharazon-(V).
Errant Story - half-elf mage girl sought god-like powers for her mage school project, but the world went to war and her project escalated. Caution, some innuendo. Suggested by Ar-Pharazon-(V) as a major favorite.
Freefall - Science-fiction webcomic. recommended by Meriadoc-(V)
Galaxion - First page. Science-fiction graphic novel by Tara Tallan. Love, life, and hyperspace. Updates Tuesdays. Loads slowly. Recommended by Meriadoc-(V).
Girl Genius - Science-fiction webcomic by the Foglios. recommended by Meriadoc-(V) and Varda-(Valar). MWF
Goblins - goblins in a D&D world who decide to become adventurers. Caution, can be gory. Suggested by Ar-Pharazon-(V).
Irregular Web Comic: The comics include a Fantasy line. LotR mixed with a D&D game: Photos of people, Legos and miniatures. Link suggested by Ar-Pharazon-(V). Comic by David Morgan-Mar
NeverNever - Fantasy webcomic. Written by Maedhros-(V) aka The Gneech
Nuklear Power - sprite comic based on Final Fantasy 1. Suggested by Ar-Pharazon-(V).
Order of the Stick, The - D&D. Story and art by Rich Burlew
Paradigm Shift - "Modern police thriller collides with classic werewolf tale when she and her partner are kicked off a juicy gun-running case to investigate a series of bizarre animal maulings." Graphic novel story and art by Dirk I. Tiede. Suggested by Meriadoc-(V).
Realm of Atland - Fantasy. Humorous, good art, graphically explicit at times but keeping to PG-13. Suggested by Ar-Pharazon-(V).
Schlock Mercenary - Archives. Science-fiction webcomic. Recommended by Meriadoc-(V).
Shamus Plays LotRO - the same Shamus that did Twenty-Sided Comic about the Lord of the Rings movies plays LotRO and uses screenies with comments on his hobbit's adventures. Archive. By Shamus.
Suburban Jungle - furry people modern times comic. Written by Maedhros-(V) aka The Gneech . Completed.
Twenty-Sided Comic: Archive for LotR , Begin comic here. Dungeons & Dragons meets Lord of the Rings. Photo-manips from the Peter Jackson movies. By Shamus. Recommended by Varda-(Valar).
Completed.
XKCD Begin comic here. Programmer fun. Recommended by Lenwe-(V). It includes a warning: Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors). For more: What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.
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The End

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