The Tolkien Usenet Groups' Links of Interest

Links directly related to the newsgroups or by posters to the newgroups:
Tolkien Meta-FAQ:	The main FAQ-site of the Tolkien newsgroups. Edited and maintained by Steuard Jensen, it contains FAQs by Steuard and William D. B. Loos, as well as various essays by Steuard Jensen and Conrad Dunkerson.
FAQ of the Rings	The topic-specific FAQ of the Great Rings; the Rings of Power. Created, written and maintained by Stan Brown.
Letters FAQ	FAQ-like guide to the contents of Humphrey Carpenter's (editor) The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien by Mike Brinza (Stug).
The Newsgroup History Project	The meek beginnings of a grandiose undertaking: describing the History of AFT and RABT.
The hypertextualized Tolkien FAQ	The old (‘Last modified: Mon Jan 8 17:07:55 1996’) newsgroup FAQ
Mike's Tolkien Resources	Page by Mike Brinza (Stug), including guides to U.S. and U.K. editions of Tolkien's works etc.
Germanic Languages	A chart on the relationships of the Germannic languages by The Softrat, George Freeman. Often of relevance to the discussions in the Tolkien newsgroups.
The Tolkien Sarcasm Page	O. Sharp's page of Tolkien Sarcasm, including the newsgroups' electronic version of The Lord of the Rings (remember to read the small print!)
Groups of the groups. If ever you should despair at the groups, fraction, factions, fragments and fronts of AFT and RABT, then recall the life of poor Brian in the People's Front of Judea: Reg: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front. P.F.J.: Yeah … Judith: Splitters! P.F.J.: Splitters … Francis: And the Judean Popular People's Front. P.F.J.: Yeah! Oh, yeah! Splitters! Splitters … Loretta: And the People's Front of Judea. P.F.J.: Yeah! Splitters! Splitters … Reg: What? Loretta: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters. Reg: We're the People's Front of Judea! Loretta: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front. Reg: People's Front! C-huh. Francis: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg? Reg: He's over there. P.F.J.: Splitter! From Monty Python's Life of Brian — quotation borrowed from http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~starbug/brian.htm Proceed to peruse at your own risk, but don't say I didn't warn you …!
TEUNC	Home of TEUNC … Tolkien Eccentric Unusual Nut-Cases Related links: Bubbles of TEUNC another TEUNCy Sait (with obligatory obeiscances to Tyope!) A TEUNC Wiki?
UFAT	Home of UFAT …
FATS	The Fredonian Academy of Tolkien Studies — Yet another society of subversive research … Whether FATS is a breakaway faction from TEUNC, a linear descendant of TEUNC or the ‘real’ TEUNC continued is anybody's guess, but they are related …
The Similarrion	Parody of The Silmarillion by Flame of the West.
Tolkien scholars and scholarly writings: If anyone should know of websites or pages for more Tolkien scholars than are listed here (e.g. Douglas A. Anderson and Gergely Nagy), the page editor will be happy to hear about it.
Mythus — Verlyn Flieger	Verlyn Flieger is a specialist in comparative mythology with a concentration in J.R.R. Tolkien. (from the site). Also the author of many books on Tolkien and myth-making as well as co-editor of the annual Tolkien Studies (see below) together with Douglas Anderson and Michael Drout.
Tom Shippey at Saint Louis University	Author of The Road to Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century as well as countless articles and other writings about Tolkien, Tom Shippey is also a renowned Tolkien scholar.
The website of Michael Drout	Michael Drout, a recognized Tolkien scholar, author of many articles, editor of J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment and co-editor of Tolkien Studies
Jane Chance at Rice University	A professor in English with a special interest in mythology and myth-making, Jane Chance has written and edited numerous books and articles on Tolkien.
The website of Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull	Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull. Authors of several books and articles about Tolkien and his writings.
The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship	A group of linguistic Tolkien scholars, notably Carl F. Hostetter (editor of the E.L.F. journals), Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Bill Welden, and Patrick H. Wynne. A special-interest group of the Mythopoeic Society.
John Garth	Author of Tolkien and the Great War and focusing on Tolkien's early years before and during the first world-war.
Tolkien Studies, Volume 1 - Table of Contents	An annual scholarly journal on its title subject. Jointly edited by Verlyn Flieger, Douglas A. Anderson and Michael Drout. Volume one of the Tolkien Studies annual can be freely downloaded. If it doesn't work at first, then click around a bit, and perhaps try one of the links below (from this journal).
Flieger, ‘Do the Atlantis story …’	Verlyn Flieger, Do the Atlantis story and abandon Eriol-Saga, Tolkien Studies vol. 1, West Virginia University Press, 2004
Shippey, ‘Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: …’	T. A. Shippey, Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem, Tolkien Studies vol. 1, West Virginia University Press, 2004
The Trouble With Tolkien	Ethan Gilsdorf, The Trouble with Tolkien, The Common Review 2, 4, Winter 2004 (PDF file)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Electronic version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon, made available by the University of Virginia.
Reference sites about Arda (Story-internal references):
The Encyclopedia of Arda	A general reference site about Tolkien's sub-created universe. Very impressive and with a wide range of articles, it suffers mainly by a lack of references to the sources of their information, and to a much lesser extend by omitting to mark debatable interpretations as such.
Mellonath Daeron Astronomical Objects in Middle-earth	A list of astronomical objects (planets, stars and constellations), their Elvish names and their English names.
Wikipedia: Category:J. R. R. Tolkien	The portal for the extensive Wikipedia category devoted to J.R.R. Tolkien. The category contains six sub-categories, and in total there are several hundred articles relating to our favourite author. The subcategories are listed below . Tolkien fandom Tolkien lists Middle-earth Reception of Tolkien Tolkien studies Works by J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien Bibliographic Links:
A chronological bibliography of the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien	Basically ‘what it says’. Including not just works published under the name of J.R.R. Tolkien, but also many works on and about Tolkien.
An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography	A bibliography of books by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien with pictures of covers.
Mellonath Daeron What's in the History of Middle-earth	The contents of all volumes in the History of Middle-earth series, with short descriptions. Also with links to listings sorted chronologically (by date of creation) and by content types. An excellent ressource.
Åke Bertenstam's Tolkien Page	This excellent page lists both a chronological bibliography of books by J.R.R. Tolkien as well as a chronological bibliography of books about Tolkien. Both lists have last been updated in 2003 (status per January 2008).
Tolkien.co.uk	The Tolkien web-site by his UK publisher, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. The Tolkien site has been updated and much refreshed as of 5^th of April, 2007.
www.Hobbit.ca	Another excellent bibliographic site, this one with a good deal of information about The Hobbit, including a gallery of cover-pictures.
The Tolkien Collector's Guide	Though with a primary focus on book-collectors, this site also sports advice for collectors of other Tolkien-related items. An excellent starting-point for those who would start any kind of serious Tolkien collection (collecting is, in this context, seen as something other than simply wanting to own some edition of the books in order to be able to read them all).
Societies, clubs etc. focusing on Tolkien's universe. Most of these societies have various reference-sections with information about J.R.R. Tolkien, his work, secondary literature, the films etc. etc. Not all of this is possible to refer to specifically, but explore these sites and discover all the wonderful content.
Home Page - The Tolkien Society	The Tolkien Society. Based in the UK, but with ‘smials’ all over the world. The society is known for its annual ‘Oxenmoot’ gathering and for several of its publications.
Tolkiensällskapet Forodrim	The Swedish Tolkien Society, with many special-interest groups providing excellent research results.
The Valar Guild	‘An international society of Tolkien appreciators and gamers’ according to the web-site, which also features a Tolkien encyclopedia.
The Mythopoeic Society	An organisation whose aim is the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantastic and mythic literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. The society publishes the journals Mythlore, Mythprint and Mythic Circle.
Links to linguistic matters:
Ardalambion	The home-page of Helge Fauskanger, devoted to the Languages of Arda. Home of the ‘Quenya Course’, which will teach you Quenya in twenty easy? lessons.
The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship	Home of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, a special-interest group of the Mythopoeic Society, who also publishes the journals Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon (see under scholarly journals).
The Tolkien Language List (TolkLang)	The TolkLang e-mail list is an e-mail discussion forum on matters relating to Tolkien's invented languages.
I Lam Arth	‘The Noble Tongue’ a site devoted to Sindarin.
Hiswelókë's Sindarin dictionary	Home of an on-line and downloadable Sindarin-English dictionary (the application for MS Windows is called ‘Dragon Flame’).
http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/	Hosted on the site of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, but independent of ELF, the Fellowship of the Word-smiths, Gwaith-i-Phethdain (a part of the Polish Tolkien Society), includes on their web-site a thorough examination of all passages in Tolkien's sub-created languages found in the film-trilogy by Peter Jackson et Al.
Essays, articles, analyses etc.:
J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth - Suite101.com	Overview of articles on J.R.R. Tolkien and his Middle-earth in Suite101.
The New York Times	‘The Tolkien Archives’: A collection of articles, reviews and other pieces published in The New York Times, from the first review of The Hobbit and onwards.
The Women of Middle Earth	Article at The Catholic Exchange by Christine O'Donnell, discussing the role of women in Tolkien's writings (in particular in The Lord of the Rings).
Michael Martinez Tolkien Essays at Merp.com Website	Essays by Michael Martinez (the all-time top poster to RABT) at MERP.com (‘Middle-earth Role-Playing Community’).
Tolkien, Sinner or Saint	‘Tolkien — Sinner or Saint’; an article by Juliet E McKenna at The Official Einarinn Web Site
Personal home-pages by regulars of the Tolkien Newsgroups:
The Softrat	The home-page of the inimitable Softrat; considerably more intelligent than the average man — and with considerably less patience.
The World of Steuard Jensen	The personal home-page of our esteemed Keeper of the FAQs, Steuard Jensen.
General Articles by Stan Brown	Apart from the Ring FAQ there are other articles with good advice on netiquette and other stuff.
Troels Forchhammer	By Troels Forchhammer.
Various other sites of interest:
The Tolkien Music List	What it says> a list of music more or less directly inspired by Tolkien's writings.
Rolozo Tolkien	A collection of graphic artwork inspired by tolkien's writings.
Talking About Tolkien	General Tolkien site associated with the Taiwan Tolkien Society
Becoming a "Tolkien Scholar"	Michael Drout, Becoming a "Tolkien Scholar", blogging on Wormtalk and Slugspeak.
David Bratman's Home Page	The home-page of David Bratman, a long-time member of the Mythopoeic Society. The site includes, among other writings, various bibliographic lists.
J.R.R.Tolkien Interview Jan 1971	Recordings and transcript of an interview with J.R.R. Tolkien by Dennis Gerrolt, first aired in January 1971 on BBC4 ‘Now Read On …’
Tolkien-related sites with RSS feeds:
Tolkien Library	‘Tolkien Library: bibliography, biography, resource, reviews, articles, essays on J.R.R. Tolkien books and collecting Tolkien’ Various bibligraphic news, including interviews with authors and collectors of Tolkien-related books.
Tolkien Gateway News	‘Tolkien News - Your daily source for Tolkien-related news:’ A focused news-site.
Wormtalk and Slugspeak	‘My life among the invertebrates’ The blog of Michael Drout. There is also much related to Anglo-Saxon, which will, of course, also interest many Tolkien enthusiasts.
Google Groups: RABT	Google provides RSS and Atom feeds from newsgroups. It may be a rotten reader, but at least it'll allow you to see when there are new posts in your favourite newsgroups.
Google Groups: AFT	See above.
Fan sites
Annals of Arda	‘Annals of Arda, the source to J.R.R.Tolkiens imaginary world and the Lord of the Ring.’ A fan-site with an encyclopaedic section.
The Council of Elrond	‘Welcome to the Council of Elrond! You have stumbled upon one of the largest resource sites on the web offering a variety of unique features based on the creative works of J.R.R. Tolkien, including The Lord of the Rings.’ One more fan-site with community features and a strong film-related section. As Pippin is kind enough to point out to Bergil: ‘Don't believe what strangers say of themselves either!” This is not really, as it claims, one of the largest ressource sites, but it does sport some special features, including a series of short articles of literary critique (by fans, not by professionals).
Lord of the Rings Fanatics Network	‘J.R.R. Tolkien and Lord of the Rings Fanatics welcome to your new home! We have everything a true Lord of the Rings Fan could ever dream off ranging from an amazing community plaza, to excellent Tolkien research and background information to the most extensive Lord of the Rings Shop on the internet:’ One more fan-site with community features and a strong film-related section. Neat site allowing the choice of a flash version and an HTML version.
Planet Tolkien	‘You have found your way to the UK's largest resource for J.R.R. Tolkien literature discussion and fan information. Enter Friends and Experience Middle-Earth.’ One more fan-site with community features and a strong film-related section. What Planet-Tolkien does seem to have is a very large discussion-board with many threads.
Arwen-Undomiel.com	Yet another fan-site making some attempt at an encyclopaedic section and with community features (discussion boards) and a strong relation to the films by Jackson. It's debateable whether this should be listed among the film fan-sites, but now it has ended up here.
Middle-earth Mythology	‘This page is meant to contain infmormation and discussions about all the characters from J.R.R. Tolkiens novels. Both those who lived/live in Middle-earth and who lived/live in the rest of Tolkiens Arda. ’ This appears to have been intended as a kind of wiki-like database, but unfortunately the practical execution doesn't quite follow the high ideals.
Xenite.org: J.R.R. Tolkien \| J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings	‘This page is a gateway to the Tolkien resources available at Xenite.Org. ’ This is a news-site and discussion board. The site is created by Michael Martinez and heavily advertises his work on Tolkien's writings.
Film fan-sites
The One Ring.net	‘Hobbit Movie News and Information - TheOneRing.net - Forged by the Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien:’ A large fan-site with discussion fora and news-sections with primary focus on the Peter Jackson films. Their own description is, ‘TheOneRing.net brings together news, rumors, and discussion concerning the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Movies.’ The patient surfer will also find some good information about Tolkien's world.
The Seat of Kings	‘…a site dedicated to providing unique content on the web. Here you'll find the Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and the Return of the King movie transcripts.’ Another fan-site dedicated mostly to the films.

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