Here are some resources (aside from the books) on learning the languages and the world of Tolkien’s Middle Earth!
This resources page will be updated periodically, with more….resources and exploration about the languages and the world of Middle Earth.
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Guides
For a complete guide to the Quenya Alphabet – click below:
For the roots of the languages of Middle Earth, click below to access the guide:
For a list of phrases, (and some I use for this site), Arwen-Undomiel has a list of Elvish speaking phrases if you want to pass them around in conversations.
Much like Wikipedia, the Tolkien Gateway provides the JRR Tolkien Encyclopedia/Resource anyone can edit:
And this is their languages archive:
Photo Gallery – for personal use
To use for free, click on the buttons below or near the image to download.
Phone Wallpapers – for personal use
And last but not least…I will list the books as resources
These lists will be updated periodically.
(For the first time, I read the Tolkien books in this order, but that’s just me):
- The Hobbit
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Silmarillion
- The Children of Hurin
- Unfinished Tales
- The Tolkien Reader (Features On Fairy Stories, Leaf by Niggle, etc, mix of Middle Earth, ME and non ME tales)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A series of poems, not a ME tale)
- The Letters of JRR Tolkien (where you’d find a lot of his inspirations of the works)
- Tales from the Perilous Realm (Children’s tales) – Roverandom, Farmer Giles of Ham, Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major, Leaf by Niggle
- Beren and Luthien
- The Fall of Gondolin (released then)
- Currently the Histories of Middle Earth (- 2/12 volumes!) – currently on #3 (The Lays of Beleriand)
- The Nature of Middle Earth – the time and space of Middle Earth, foundational matters like lifestyles and free will, and the systems
- A Secret Vice – on Tolkien’s invented languages and resources, and how they are related to his mythology
- Letters from Father Christmas – the Christmas letters that Tolkien wrote to his children.
And here are the guides read by me:
- Literary Converts by Joseph Pierce (not meant to be entirely about Tolkien, but contains snippets)
- Walking with Bilbo and Walking with Frodo by Sarah Arthur
- The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by Philip and Carol Zaleski
- The Worlds of JRR Tolkien by John Garth