The Archive - Useful and noteworthy blog posts

 

The archivist of the library of the Great Smials, Donnamira Took, looks up from her endless task of sorting through the manuscripts, scrolls, books and other documents around her and gives you a glare.

“In such a hurry to find something are we?” she disapprovingly rasps. “I may have just the thing to assist you.”

The Archive: Useful and noteworthy blog posts 

Essential guides

📜 What is the Green Book of the White Downs?
📜 Blog design update for 2023
📜 Scholars of the Undertowers - Gazetteer of Tolkien on the World Wide Web (Updated 19 February 2023)
📜 2023 Upcoming Tolkien-related books
📜 Upcoming Tolkien-related events in 2023
📜 Gaming in Middle-earth - State of play report May 2023 🔥 (30 May 2023)
📜 Gaming in Middle-earth - New releases and upcoming games crib sheets 2023 🔥 (30 May 2023)
📜 Gaming in Middle-earth - New and upcoming releases for PC, Console, Mobile and Digital gaming crib sheets for 2023 🔥 (30 May 2023)
📜 Gaming in Middle-earth - Free League's The One Ring RPG and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying game 5E 🔥 (30 May 2023)
📜 Gaming in Middle-earth - Games you may have missed crib sheet 🔥 (30 May 2023)
📜 A quick visual guide to the books of and about J.R.R. Tolkien
📜 The Tolkien license info graphic
📜 The Wandering Company: LOTRO Scenario’s path through Middle-earth 🔥

Highlighted Tolkien/Middle-earth posts

📜 The Tolkien license – exploring where the Tolkien Estate, Middle-earth Enterprises, games, television, films, Tolkien-based societies/groups and other things fit in. (2021 Edition)
📜 When Tolkien met Cthulhu – the blurring of reality and fantasy and a cautionary tale about how not all you find on the internet is true
📜 In the Footsteps of Tolkien:1947 - Tolkien and the Malvern Hills

Highlighted LOTRO posts

📜 Rana’s Lore: Crafting a tale inLord of the Rings Online – Part One: A Fox’s Tail (Archive: 03/01/2021)
📜 Welcome to Rana’s Homely Houses! (2021 Edition)
📜 Rana’s Lore: “The Grasp of the Gnome” (Archive: 27/01/2018)
📜 Rana's Lore – “Squirrels in LOTRO” (Archive 21/01/2018)
📜 Rana’s Lore – “Appreciating the Squirrels in LOTRO” (Archive: 10/01/2021)
📜 Rana's Lore - The Shire Chicken that had extra special eggs… (Archive 13/01/2018)

Illuminating The Rings of Power

📜 Concerning fandom – addressing the negative response to Amazon Prime’s Rings of Power TV series (2022 Edition)

Note: Banner image of Gandalf in the libraries of Minas Tirith from Peter Jackson's film adaption of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"