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I first read LOTR in 1959, when I was 11, then three or four times a year for the next five or six years, and at least once a year after that. This book has shaped my being. And yes, I like the movies, all things considered. Check out this large collage of my office. I have catalogued all of my Tolkien books in LibraryThing.
- The Chronological Tolkien Page
- Tell the calculator which editions you have of various things (not including the History), and get a chapter-by-chapter reading plan. Bless you, Space Monkey.
- Council of Elrond
- News, chat, galleries, fan fiction, film transcripts, great family trees, fonts, etc.
- The Encyclopedia of Arda
- A massive reference source for the history, geography, etc. of Arda. Also available as a desktop tool.
- The Lord of the Rings.com
- Includes essays, news, message boards, and a big section of well-annotated links to other sites. Emphasis on the books.
- Lord of the Rings Fanatics Network
- Extensive and well organized collection in the link directory, and some fine content in the library, including (in process) genealogies and up-close images of some of the books glimpsed in the movies.
- TheOneRing.net
- Regarded as the best site for movie news, and the one which got Peter Jackson's ear early on.
- The Order to Read Tolkien's Books
- By library consultant David Bratman. Including the History (so you could file that in with the results of the chronological calculation from the site listed above).
- Planet Tolkien
- Well organized, easy on the eye, UK-based. Tolkien generally, with no special emphasis on the movies. Includes The Guide - an attempt to create a complete glossary of Tolkien's works.
- Tolkien
- The dedicated HarperCollins site (which is really hard to find from the main HarperCollins pages).
- The Tolkien Society
- Founded in 1969 - a scholarly (which does not imply humourless) society. I am a member.
Humour
- Bag End to the Cracks of Doom
- MapQuest directions by Andrew Arensburger.
- Straight Dope Message Board - If LOTR Had Been Written By Someone Else?
- Actually, many hundreds of someone elses. This is a hoot, and it has some extremely clever material and some trash. ROTFL.
- The Very Secret Diaries
- By Cassandra Claire, who has ceased this activity, alas.
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