Tolkien Sites

Tolkien Websites

• Annals of Arda
• The Tolkien Society The first and oldest Tolkien fan community (founded 1969).
• J.R.R. Tolkien in Oxford A virtual tour.
• The Grey Havens
• The ValaQuenta
• The Mythopoeic Society
• Tolkien Online Extensive biographical and bibliographical information, with personal essays.
• Tolkien Meta FAQ (rec.arts.books.tolkien)
• Tolkienet
• Tolkien News
• /CommercialSites

Tolkien Pages on Other Sites

General

• Åke Bertenstam's Tolkien Page. This site contains mainly bibliographical information: Writings of Tolkien [1] and books about Tolkien [2].
• FAQ-like Guide to the Letters of JRRT
• J.R.R. Tolkien Collection at the Marquette University
• Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
• The Tolkien's Guild This site contains an extensive FAQ section [3]
• The Tolkien Sarcasm Page
• Tolkien and Middle-earth related articles on Suite101
• Tolkien Lecture Notes of Prof. J.Köberl, an Austrian linguist and Tolkien expert[4].
• Tolkien's Cosmogony (by Professor Ralph C. Wood)

• J.R.R. Tolkien Trail
• Tolkien's Birmingham
• Tolkien's Oxford This site also contains a clickable map with some relevant places [5]

• Wikipedia article on J.R.R Tolkien
• Wikipedia article on Middle-earth

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia edited by the public. Feel free to add to the existing articles or create new ones.

• Tolkien encyclopedia page on www.nationmaster.com

• dmoz open directory project. The TolkienWiki is also listed there [6]

• The Astronomy of Middle-earth

Foreign Language Tolkien Websites

• Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. - The German Tolkien Society
• The Tolkien Society Forodrim (Swedish) Partly also in English [7], with a very interesting section about HoMe [8], including a detailed list of all the texts arranged according to content [9] and in chronological order [10].
• Tolkien & Co - The French Tolkien Society
• Società Tolkieniana Italiana - The Italian Tolkien Society.
• Österreichische Tolkien Gesellschaft - The Austrian Tolkien Society.
• Tolkinas tinkle - website in Lithuanian, maintained by Tolkien Lietuva messageboard members.
• Estonian Tolkien society
• El Poney Pisador (Prancing Pony spanish site)

English Spoken Forums and Newsgroups

The following sites are non-profit sites to the best of my knowledge (for others see /CommercialSites):

BBS

• TolkienWiki Forum
• Minas Tirith
• Reading Tolkien's Middle-earth A relatively new community, very ambitious, see especially the "Silmarillion/Unfinished Tales-Reading Group".

• Tolkien Talk email community

• GoogleGroup:rec.arts.books.tolkien
• GoogleGroup:alt.fan.tolkien
• news:alt.fan.tolkien
• news:rec.arts.books.tolkien
• ...

German Forums and Newsgroups

• news:de.alt.rec.fantasy
• news:de.rec.buecher
• news:de.rec.fs.misc
• ...

Tolkien Encyclopediae

• Encyclopedia in Annals of Arda
• Encyclopedia of Arda
• Tolkien Encyclopedia
• Spanish Tolkien Encyclopedia
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• Tolkien Gateway

Tolkien's Languages and Writing Systems

see: TolkiensLanguages

Artists, Authors and Illustrators

Professional Artwork

• John Howe
• Ted Nasmith

• Katy (Talierin) Osterwald a young TTF member (more of her artwork can be found at her Homepage [11])

• Michael C. Drout, author of Beowulf and the Critics. There's also a page about him at the Wheaton College site [12] and a Blog called "Wormtalk and Slugspeak" [13]