I missread the thread and thought the question was do you know of any good fan sites? I didn't realize they were suposed to be your own. whee Oops. Well, none of these are my own, but they are good.www.theonering.net ~
http://greenbooks.theonering.net/I tried reading LotR in... 7th, 8th grade? because I liked the Hobbit. I got maybe half way through TTT before deciding it was the worst, most boring book I ever read and if I never had to look at it again it would be too soon. Some time passes and I see an ad for TheOneRing on an IGN guide for my favorite game (well, I'd seen it a lot on that guide and just finally got curios one day). I was so blown away by the scale of TheOneRing that I figured I'd missed something in LotR when I read it. You don't get fans dedicated at that level for the most boring book ever. In ninth grade I took up the book again and started reading. Turns out, I was three pages from the battle of Helm's Deep.
whee Needless to say, I loved the book. I still maintain that books 3 and 5 and more boring than 4 and 6, however
3nodding . That's the power of a fan site, though.
GreenBooks is the schollerly part of TheOneRing. I seperate them because the main site is devoted to the movie, and GreenBooks is devoted to the book. The articals there, especially Quickbeam's are excelent. They even published a book called "The People's Guide To J.R.R. Tolkien". It's a really, really good food-for-thought book. It's also a good between-books read. I read a little bit which sends me off on tangents (like reading the Bible so I can read Milton's "Paradice Lost" so I can reread Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series so I can better understand the artical that started me on this reading list. Only to cringe at the thought of the bible long enough to get sucked into another series I'd been meaning to read. It's that kind of book.).
http://www.angelsandelves.com/I may be an agnostic pegan, but this site, devoted to the Christian theams in LotR, is one of my favorites. They've found the balence between talking about the book in religious terms and preeching. Highly recomended.
http://www.thereandbackagain.netRequires Flash 5 or higher. Good site stuffed full of all the information you ever wanted to know. They have had wonderful maps in the past and don't seem to have gotten them up on the new site yet. Still worth checking out, though. Lots of Information on Tolkien.
http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htmThe Encyclopedia of Arda. Everything you ever wanted to know period. Their calendar converter is really cool. They have lots of working maps there, too. (You can't tell I love maps, can you?)
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