Trustworthy Websites
These are all websites that I recommend. To see a list of websites that are often mistaken for good sources of Tolkien's languages visit the Untrustworthy Websites list.
- About Tolkien's Languages
- Tolkien Language Communities
- Elvish Compositions
- About Writing Systems
- About Arda
- About and Hosting Fanliterature
- Other Useful, Trustworthy Websites
About Tolkien's Languages
Ardalambion- Summaries of Sindarin, Quenya, Adûnaic, Westron, Telerin, Doriathrin, Mannish Tongues, Nandorin, Old Sindarin, Ilkorin, Avarin, Khusdul, Entish, Black Speech, Valarin, Primitive Elvish, and Tolkien's other languages that don't have anything to do with Eä.
- A Quenya Textbook
- Quenya Wordlists
- And many useful articles about Sindarin and Quenya.
- It's been translated into many different languages of ours.
- A Sindarin Textbook
- A Quenya Textbook
- Many useful articles about reconstructing words
- Some poetry in Sindarin and Quenya.
- The textbooks are translated into many of our languages.
- Linguistic essays about Quenya, Goldogrin, Sindarin, and Telerin. It also has some compositions and a section on Glossopoeia (constructed langauges).
- Tons of great articles about Sindarin!
- Articles on etymologies of Mannish languages, but they need to be updated.
- Research into the often neglected history of Man
- Articles about astronomy and geography
- A few articles just for comedic relief.
- It's in German as well.
- A extensive breakdown of everything known about Dwarvish!
- Extensive pronunciation guides for Quenya.
- All of the Tolkien's compositions in his languages, as well as a few of our own.
- It's in French too!
- The best Sindarin dictionary that I know of.
- It's in English, French, and German.
- It's an attempt to gather all of the Elvish words that Tolkien made in a canonical, easy to search way. It's a great tool for citing dictionary entries in posts. It mainly draws upon Ardalambion's wordlists, and Hiswelókë.
- This is David Salo's blog. He's the linguist who worked on the Elvish, Dwarvish, and Orcish translations for the movies.
- One of the best fan-made versions of Neo-Khuzdul. Definately not canon, but still good conlang work, heavily inspired by Semitic languages.
Tolkien Language Communities
Mellonath Daeron- Many specialized wordlists
- A phrasebook
- Various Sindarin and Quenya compositions, as well as Tengwar calligraphy.
- A list of articles and resources.
- The storefront for Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon
- Home of Tengwestië
- Many linguistic articles.
- An Excellent French website collectiong resources, essays, articles, a forum, and it's in French!
- Another excellent collection of articles in French, and a forum connected to it.
- A german website with fantastic articles about Sindarin, a great forum, and it's in German!
- Home and store front of Parma Eldalamberon.
- The archieves for a mailing list devoted to Tolkien's languages.
- Home of pronunciation guides you can listen to.
- Lots of useful reasorces and information.
- A Yahoo group where Elvish is discussed and all the pros hang out! Make sure you read the rules before posting or joining.
- A place for discussing Tolkien's languages and publishing Elven compositions.
Elvish Compositions
Aglardh- A place where people post compositions in Elvish.
- Collected original poetry composed in Tolkien's various languages by all sorts of authors!
- Home of the Quenya Baby Book.
- Quenya compositions by V. Barouch.
About Writing Systems
Dan Smith's Fantasy Fonts for Windows- Guides about how to write the Tengwar
- Fonts of Tengwar to use.
- Articles about writing in Tengwar, some fonts, and the Tengwar Scribe, a useful tool that transcribes text into Dan Smith's fonts.
- A brief but good outline of Tengwar.
- If you don't want to learn how to write in Tengwar, just use this!
About Arda
The Encyclopedia of Arda- Tons of information about Middle-earth!
- A wonderful, well researched website that rivals The Encyclopedia of Arda. It's not very fancy, but the information on it is sound.
- A Tolkien Encyclopedia in Portuguese!
- It has an encyclopedia, articles comparing the movies and the books, and a fun community for a Tolkien fan.
- It also has a large Elvish section, but it's a bit out of date.
- Another encyclopedia-like resource.
- Another encyclopedia-like source of information.
- A Tolkien Wiki!
- All of the family tree info you could ever want on all of the characters in LotR!
- This is a list of abstracts of the 12 Histories of Middle-earth. It's always best to just read the books, but if you only need a quick reminder or reference about what was in the books, this is a useful read.
About and Hosting Fanliterature
FanFiction.Net- The largest database of fanfiction there is, with the least quality control.
- A high quality archive that encourages scholarly inquiry.
- A great archive of LotR Gen-fic. It's got lots of fanfiction-related things to do on it, like contests and challenges.
- If slashfic is your thing, here is the perfect fanfiction archive for you!
- An exclusive LotR fanfiction archive where only high quality fanfiction is published.
- Lots of LotR fanfiction, with no quality control.
- I'm sorry to say this, but most of the writers in the Lord of the Ring Fandom should take this test. Take it if you have a The Lord of the Rings fan fiction, please.
- Another test, this time its for fantasy/sci-fi works in general. It's more streamlined and aims for the heart of the problem in the characterization.
- Many very good essays about writing fantasy.
- Advice, essays, and rants about writing by Wandering Critic.
- This is a Google Search on "LotR Beta Readers".
- (The new home of Godawful Fanfiction) A forum where you can let out steam about fanfiction petpeeves and snark bad fanfiction. Very good because you will learn a lot about writing while having a few laughs. Restricted access: only those older than 17!
- A LiveJournal community that rips apart Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings fanfic apart. Another good place to learn about writing while laughing.
- If you understand what all of those letters stand for, then you know exactly what that is.
Other Useful, Trustworthy Websites
Tolkien Enterprises- These are the copyright holders of Tolkien's work. Respect them.
- Want to know more about the movie? Here you go!
- If you are having a hard time using Elvish without symbols, look no further! Omniglot has a page devoted to the codes of these symbols.