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
- Elvish Name Generators
- About Arda
- Useful Essays
- 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 and Telerin.
- A long list of Sindarin articles and resources.
- A long list of Sindarin articles and resources, as well as a list of resources to avoid.
- Parlez-vous français? C'est une liste des ressources pour les francophones.
- Wordlists of Sindarin, Quenya, Noldorin, and Rohiric
- Sindarin and Quenya textbooks
- A phrasebook
- Lists of our names translated into Sindarin, Quenya, and Rohirric (Old English)
- Lists of the Elvish dialogue of the movies
- Lists of other articles and resources.
- Articles on etymologies of Mannish languages
- 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.
- Extensive pronunciation guides.
- 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.
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 Eldalambion
- Home of Tengwestië
- Many linguistic articles.
- 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
Elm- Collected original poetry composed in Tolkien's various languages by all sorts of authors!
- Home of the Quenya Baby Book.
- Poetry in Elvish by Petri Tikka.
- 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
- Home of the Tengwar Textbook.
- A brief but good outline of Tengwar.
- A guide about Tengwar
- Articles about Tolkien
- It's in Portuguese and English!
Elvish Name Generators
q u e n y a l a p s e p a r m a- Someone has actually figured out what hundreds of names mean and translated them. The names are in Quenya.
- Searchable lists of our names in Sindarin, Quenya, and Rohiric.
- Quenya names from Ardalambion. There aren't very many names on it, but they are truthful.
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.
- Another encyclopedia-like resource.
- All of the Fanon disproved! Great for refrence and the occasional arguement.
- Another encyclopedia-like source of information.
- A Tolkien Wiki!
- Lists of carefully researched timelines and a few essays worth reading.
- An extensive set of timelines and information about Númenor and its downfall.
Useful Essays
What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex- With all of the romances running around in The Lord of the Rings fandom, people should know what they are writing about.
- 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.
- Information on the weapons of Arda!
- An informative essay about one of the most favored characters.
- An Essay about how to use foriegn languages gracefully in fiction.
- A well-researched essay about Legolas' age.
About and Hosting Fanliterature
FanFiction.Net- The largest database of fanfiction there is, with the least quality control.
- 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.
- A list of helpful essays for beginning The Lord of the Rings fan fiction writers.
- This is a Google Search on "LotR Beta Readers".
- (Currently being rebuilt) 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.
- Agents go into bad fanfics and rip them appart! In the process, you will learn about writing and get a few good laughs.
- 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.