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Tolkien's Life
Biographical information on Tolkien
Tolkien Gallery
(photos of Tolkien, his family, places, etc.)
Talking About Tolkien
(videos and audio clips of Tolkien talking about his work)
Reference Works on Tolkien
Tolkien Bibliography collected and maintained by the Tolkien Research Group at Wheaton College
A Chronological Bibliography of the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
compiled by Åke Bertenstam
The Encyclopedia of Arda: Reference Guide to the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien Gateway from HarperCollins in the UK (official site)
Houghton Mifflin's Tolkien site
(publishers of Tolkien's works have a useful site)
Marquette University's J.R.R. Tolkien Collection of Manuscripts
Tolkien Library
General Sites on Tolkien and His Works
UNM Hobbit Society
The Tolkien Society
Mythopoeic Society
J.R.R Tolkien and Middle-earth Articles and Links
Tolkien Studies on the Web
National Geographic site w/articles
Lead, Follow or Go over the Sea: A reading of the heroic relationships in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings by Maurice G. London
About The Songs And Poems In The Lord Of The Rings
Tolkien and Thomism
Spiritual Interpretations of Tolkien's Work
From Pointy Ears to Grima's Tears: Investigations of a Tolkien enthusiast
(a good fan site, with lots of interesting thoughts, especially about
the relationships between Jackson's films and the books-- see
especially the piece on Faramir)
J.R.R. Tolkien: An Imaginative Life
Tolkien's Invented Languages
Ardalambion
(one of the best and most extensive sites on Tolkien's languages)
Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics
Mellonath Daeron
Elvish Dictionary
Quenya Course from Ardalambion
Languages of Middle-earth
Visual Art and Images related to Tolkien's works
Map from The Hobbit
Middle-earth Maps and Charts
Images from covers for The Hobbit
Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Culture
Beowulf in Hypertext
Beowulf on Steorarume
Syd Allan -- Beowulf : Start Page
Beowulf at the British Library
"Beowulf: Scandinavian Traditions - Personality of the Hero;
Origin and Antiquity of the Poem; the Religious Element"
by H. Munro Chadwick
Peter Baker's Readings from Beowulf
The Funeral of Scyld Scefing
RealAudio recording of the Old English text by Steve Pollington
Beowulf: The History of the Manuscript
Anglo Saxon England: 542 - 1066 (titled "Scottish Monarchs of the
Middle Ages," but gives dates and summary of Anglo-Saxon
history)
Regia Anglorum:
Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History
ORB Anglo-Saxon Resources
Maps and History of Anglo-Saxon England
Sutton Hoo
Good explanation of the History and Background
Anglo-Saxon Art and Objects
from the British Museum Collection (search for "Anglo-Saxon")
Sutton Hoo Room
Battle of Maldon
Maldon and Moria: on Byrhtnoth, Gandalf, and heroism in The Lord of the Rings by Alexander M. Bruce (Mythlore, September 22, 2007)
Old English text of the Battle of Maldon poem
The Battle
of Maldon website by Wilfrid Berridge
Poem read aloud by Michael Drout
The poem translated into modern English by Jonathan A. Glenn
Wuffings site on the Battle of Maldon (with photos of location)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(See also King Arthur below)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Middle English
(edited by E.V. Gordon and J.R.R. Tolkien)
Sir Gawain and in Green Knight in Modern English Translation by Paul Deane
Audio Recording of Some of the Poem in Middle English
Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly Love
by Debora B. Schwartz, California Polytechnic State University
CAMELOT Project
Cotton Nero A.x Project
Important project describing the palaeographical features of the manuscript
Images from the Gawain Manuscript
(from Clare Kinney's Engl 381 course)
Introduction to the poem as edited by Thomas Hahn
"The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight," article by R. Allen Shoaf
The Prose Edda and Scandinavian Culture
Medieval Icelandic Manuscripts
Prose Edda in Old Norse
Viking Rune
The Prose Edda
Scandinavia and the Northern Seas
from the ORB
Snorri Sturluson
Viking Mythology
King Arthur
(See also Sir Gawain above)
An Archeological Quest for King Arthur
Arthurian Resources
Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies
Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly Love
by Debora B. Schwartz, California Polytechnic State University
Britannia's Arthurian Resources
The Camelot Project
Image of page from Winchester manuscript of Malory's Le Morte Darthur
King Arthur at Early British Kingdoms
King Arthur: A Man for the Ages
Welsh Sources of King Arthur and
Knights of the Round Table
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Round Table at Winchester
Tintagel -- King Arthur's birthplace
Films
Peter Jackson's Official Lord of the Rings Movie site
A Potion Too Strong: Challenges of Translating the Religious Significance of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to Film by Jeffrey Mallinson
from the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Fun and Games
Middle-earth Crossword Puzzles
The Hobbit adventure maze
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