The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page

It is possible that what you are reading right now is a local copy of the JRRT page, which might be out of date. The original, which is stored at the University of Waterloo in Canada, is here. This version was last updated on 6 April, 1995.

• Other Individuals' WWW Pages
  • Bruce Jewell's Tolkien Page
  • Sonia Heimann's Tolkien Page
  • Jim Ludwig's Tolkien Page was down the last time I checked.
  • Bo Dahlstrvm's Tolkien Page
  • The Tolkien Timeline

• A List of Lists
  • The Frequently Asked Questions List in hypertext.
  • The Frequently Asked Questions List in plain text.
  • The Less Frequently Asked Questions List in plain text.
  • The TolkLang Frequently Asked Questions List
  • The Book List
  • The Society List
  • The Mailing-List List
  • The Games List
  • The Role-Playing-Games List
  • The Linguist's Resource List
  • The Poetry Index

• A List of Mailing Lists
  • The Mailing-List List
  • Information on the Tolkien Bitnet Mailing List
  • Information on the Tolkien Czech-Slovak Mailing List
  • The TolkLang Frequently Asked Questions List
  • The TolkLang Archive (UK) contains all of the past editions of the TolkLang mailing list as well as other interesting items.

• Archive and Database Search Engines
  • From the Comma Movie Database in the UK
    • Movie: The Hobbit
    • Movie: Lord of the Rings
    • Movie: Return of the King

  • Do a Tolkien Query using the Lysator Science Fiction Archive.
  • Do a Tolkien Query at the WAIS Science Fiction Reviews Database (North Carolina, USA)
  • Do a Tolkien Query at the Yahoo List

• Games
  • The Games List
  • The Role-Playing-Games List
  • The Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail Page
  • The Lower Middle Earth Role Playing Archive. (This is some sort of weird joke, but since its in Finnish, I don't get it.)
  • Another, more serious Role Playing Archive, with some JRRT material.
  • Connect to the Elendor MUSH. A hypertext information page is here.
  • Connect to the MUME V MUD (Switzerland). The hypertext information page is here.
  • Connect to the Genesis MUD which apparantly has a Tolkien section.
  • Connect to the Aurora MUD.
  • Connect to the Nanny MUD, which has two Tolkien areas. A hypertext information page is here.

• Newsgroups (Threaded!)
  • The Alt-Fan-Tolkien newsgroup
  • The Rec-Arts-Books-Tolkien newsgroup

• Language Resources
  • A Whole Lot of Online Dictionaries
  • The Tolkien Language List Archive Home Page
  • A Tengwar graphic
  • The Linguist's Resource List
  • Information on Vinyar Tengwar, The bimonthly journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship.

• Societies, Conferences and Newsletters
  • Information on Mythcon XXVI, August 4-7 1995 in California.
  • The Tolkien Society Home Page
  • The Oxford Tolkien Society Home Page
  • The Gothenburg Tolkien Society Home Page
  • The Finnish Tolkien Society Home Page
  • The Czech Tolkien Society Home Page
  • Information about Quettar.
  • Information on Vinyar Tengwar, the bimonthly journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship.

• Graphics
  • A Tengwar graphic (GIF).
  • The Middle-Earth Map (Black and white, GIF, about 50K.)
  • The Hamburg Tolkien Archive has a directory of pictures.
  • Another directory of pictures from the Hamburg site.
  • Sunet has a fantasy pictures archive with a Tolkien directory. It also has pictures from the 1984 Calendar by Roger Garland
  • Garfield (North Carolina, USA) also has a fantasy picture archive with a Tolkien directory.
  • Galaxy (Poland) has a bunch of pictures inspired by Tolkien.
  • Jarkko Lavinen's Tolkien Image Gallery
  • Pictures by Angus McBride

• Family Trees
  • The Great Houses Family Tree in Postscript.
  • The Noldor Family Tree in Postscript.

• Fonts
  • Truetype Tengwar for MS Windows 3.1.
  • Truetype Tengwar for the Mac.
  • Stanford University has a Dungeons and Dragons Archive which has several Tengwar fonts.
  • The Washington University Archive has a Tengwar Truetype Font. (About 100K compressed.)
  • Tengwar in Metafont
  • Other Elvish fonts in Metafont

• Online Texts
  • The Oxford Text Archive (UK) is taking orders for the online copy of Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght.
    • Order Form
    • Catalog Entry (local)
    • Full Catalog (around 170K)
    • Archive Information
  • Verses from The Lord of the Rings.

• Parodies
  • The Tolkien Ring Network. For you non-techie-types, this is a pun on Token Ring.
  • The Scouring of the Shire

• Miscellaneous
  • Elves in Tolkien and Folklore
  • The Last Homely House

• Non-Tolkien Resources (that JRRT fans might be interested in)
  • The C.S. Lewis Page

I'd also like to thank Martin Titz for his work on the Hamburg FTP Site, William Loos for his work on the FAQs, and everyone else who has taken the time to add value to the Internet.