New web sites
It’s my great pleasure to announce two new on-line resources supporting the world-wide community of Tolkien scholarship.… Tolkienists(.org) … and … TolkienMoot.… I am accepting donations to help pay for these sites.…
Two more papers given…
Two more papers given at the Mythopoeic Society’s 49th annual Mythcon: The Lord of the Rings Citations: A tour and The Tolkien Art Index: A tour .…
Pagination cross-reference for The Lord of the Rings
My friend and colleague Andrew Peterson visited this last weekend to help with the initial work on my new pagination cross-reference for The Lord of the Rings. … I’ve built a database which will contain one record per paragraph of The Lord of the Rings, containing the first few words of the paragraph, the paragraph number within the chapter and book (watch for a posting soon describing how this is assigned), and the page number on which the paragraph begins in each of the five editions listed above. In addition, there are spots to put the correlative page in Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull’s The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion (if there is one) and Words, Phrases and Passages in The Lord of the Rings (in Parma Eldalamberon XVII. … Once we’ve entered the rest of the data, I’ll make everything available freely in spreadsheet form. I may also have the time to create an on-line pagination converter and companion iOS app.…