Thoughts, essays, writings, etymologies and commentaries on Tolkien, his Legendarium and its history

Changelog (since the beginning of time i.e. 17 May 2016)

27 May 2022
- Remove a lot of content due to copyright concern. Most of this can be rewritten in time but I have to find that time, energy and motivation and that's not something I have a lot of lately.
07 Sep 2021
- Clean up links a bit.
03 Aug 2021
- Add more about the Five Wizards (including the role the Blue Wizards played) in the history of The Lord of the Rings document.
- Add request to please consider buying the books. Although I include some information for the love of Tolkien and his works I don't want to take away from the books with much more information and worth much more (though at reasonable prices).
31 Jul 2021
- Add a minor note on the fact that there's more known about the blue wizards and it's thought that they played an important role in The Lord of the Rings (It's in The Peoples of Middle-earth and it's in the todo file for some while I just haven't got to documenting it).
11 Jul 2021
- It's been a very long time since I've made any updates here as life has been busy, some good and some bad and some neither. I have additional content I have intention to add eventually, some of which is in the todo, but this is a light update: added a humour section (for now only memes - some of my own and some others have made).
14 Dec 2020
- Typo fix in The Lord of the Rings document.
17 Oct 2020
- Reorder two sections in history of The Lord of the Rings document to make consistent with its preceding section.
29 Aug 2020
- Add misconceptions and myths about the orcs in essays.
21 Aug 2020
- Add two examples of a word that some claim makes Tolkien racist, but used of good characters, too, in the essay refuting the claim that Tolkien was racist.
14 Aug 2020
- Add to language document 'mathom' and 'smial'.
28 Jun 2020
- Added more information on Oliphaunts (and removed the entry from the todo).
- Updated todo.
03 Apr 2020
- Add initial germ of Nazgûl calling cry to the history of The Lord of the Rings document.
03 Apr 2020
- Add entry 'Shirriff' to languages document.
- Fix incorrect claim that the first name of Gondor was 'Gond': possibly a conflation in my head but in recent times I have wondered if maybe it should have been 'Ond' and so it was and now is.
- Add todo list for the website.
31 Mar 2020
- Add Oliphaunt rhyme to the complete history of the Oliphaunts section in the history of the L.R.
- Minor rewording/clarifications in the document on the Witch-king of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgûl.
- Add to the summary of this index.
30 Mar 2020
- Add the etymology and the context of Bucklebury in The Shire (in the places document).
- Minor adjustments to the languages document - on the names of Samwise and Hamfast Gamgee as well as formatting (more work needed!).
26 Mar 2020
- Add amusing chat between the hobbits Bingo, Odo and Frodo about hobbit-holes and hobbit-houses in the history of The Lord of the Rings document.
16 Mar 2020
- Fix references of 'Second Age' to be 'Third Age' in the Witch-king document regarding the prophecy and also add the year of his fall.
15 Mar 2020
- Today is the anniversary of the fall of the Witch-king of Angmar and I have written a document in the new section 'writings' about this: the prophecy and the actual downfall. There is no real commentary on it other than answering what actually happened to him.
05 Mar 2020
- Hypertext fixes.
- Several updates to the places document (about Lothlórien). Includes highlighting of certain words most of which if hovered over include information about it.
03 Mar 2020
- Updated links list.
23 Feb 2020
- New document: places in the Legendarium (for now only has information on Lórien).
- Add direct link to the obit for Christopher Tolkien in the menu above.
21 Feb 2020
- Index clean up.
20 Feb 2020
- Add two sections to the history of The Lord of the Rings document: the complete history of oliphaunts and the original names of Dernhelm.
- Fix error in the History of Middle-earth document about the last time we see Glorfindel.
23 Jan 2020
- Added an obit for Christopher Tolkien, who has left for the Halls of Mandos but who will for ever be here in spirit.
19 Jan 2020
- Added emphases in the essay refuting the claim that Tolkien was racist.
- Add comment on hobbit invention in History of Middle-earth document (this was supposed to be included with my document on languages update so it's backdated then).
23 Dec 2019
- Added links page.
- Added document on languages: words, names, their meanings and origin.
- Added a comment about the invention of hobbits.
08 Dec 2019
- Link and hypertext fixes.
- Remove some redundancy (and extraneous details).
- Add the original story where Frodo encounters Treebeard (very different in every way from the final).
- Cleaned up a number of sections and made last updated/new dates consistent in the menu with the sections themselves.
25 Oct 2019
- Many improvements and additional content in the history of The Lord of the Rings document.
09 Jul 2019
- Added spoiler warning to main page; strike through the link to The Silmarillion commentary as it's long since defunct.
07 Jul 2019
- Dedicated domain for the Tolkien documents with a slight update to the summary above. The name 'tolkienlegendarium.net' refers to the Legendarium which is a word that Tolkien coined for his mythologies. And that probably should be in a FAQ or some such but for now that will do.
05 Jul 2019
- Fix a reference to 'Stone Giant' to be 'Stone Troll' in the etymology of the Ents in The Lord of the Rings history document. Also updated a few other sections to make them a bit easier to follow and to link to other parts of the history.
11 Jun 2019
- Add two sections to the history of The Lord of the Rings document: pranks that Bingo plays on Farmer Maggot and the alternative Ring verses.
03 May 2019
- Fix link to History of Middle-earth document (and the name of the link too).
- Formatting fixes here and there (some CSS changes to make at least parts responsive).
- Add a bit to the definition of Balrog in the History of Middle-earth document.
21 Apr 2019
- Added new document: commentary on the History of Middle-earth (more general than the document on the History of The Lord of the Rings); this has various new things including notes on the invention of Hobbits, Balrogs, the plural of Dwarf, Glorfindel in the First Age and Third Age and maybe some other things.
- Updated the History of The Lord of the Rings document: referencing the new document as well as a few other things (related but also the explanation of the similar name in The Chronicles of Narnia to The Lord of the Rings: the Troll area; it was plagiarism on Lewis' part).
17 Aug 2018
- Removed erroneous statement about Thorin having a Ring of Power in The Hobbit, in the history of The Lord of the Rings document (it's related to how the Rings of Power affected the Dwarves).
12 Jun 2018
- Clarify and fix a few things in the History of The Lord of the Rings document (which is new in that it's what used to be The History of Middle-earth document).
26 Mar 2018
- I've published the additions: about the steed of the Nazgûl and the colours (and names) of the two unnamed wizards.
- Updated the History of Middle-earth document: specifically made it easier to skip to the main content and added a prelude (or something along those lines) of what I have next (though uncertain when I'll publish it).
29 Dec 2017
- Updated the History of Middle-earth document.
21 Dec 2017
- Update essay on Tolkien and racism.
20 Sep 2017
- Add essay debunking the claim that Tolkien was racist to essays table of contents.
04 Jul 2017
- Add essays to table of contents (currently only one about Balrogs).
28 Jun 2017
- The Silmarillion document is for the long foreseen future not being worked on (and has not been worked on for well over a year).
- Updated The History of Middle-earth [HoMe] document.
17 May 2016
- Initial index.