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For those who are just entering Tolkien's magical Middle Earth (thanks to the film) and those who are hard-core Lord of the Rings fans, the web is a must visit place for facts, trivia, images and games.
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THE FILM is up for 13 nominations at the Academy Awards and fans of Tolkien's magical Lord of the Rings (LOTR) trilogy can visit Middle Earth, meet Frodo and company and find out what others think about the books and the movie with these great web sites.
Lord of the Rings
http://www.lordoftheringsmovie.
com: Restricting its focus to the movies, the site has a calm, attractive look about it. The art site has a nice mix of official and fan-generated items, including a few nifty screen savers.
One Ring - The complete guide to Tolkien online
http://onering.virbius.com/index.php: One Ring combines a pleasant sampling of news headlines and featured sites with a truly comprehensive index of other folks' sites, from academic pages to web rings. The Editor's Choice section is a one-stop shop for the best of LOTR.
Theonering.net
http://www.theonering.net/index.shtml: This is not simply a fan site, but features some of the best entertainment-news reporting around. It provides a mix of gushy fan stuff and top-notch reporting.
Lord of the Rings fanatics site
http://www.lordotrings.com: This is a terrific site with an excellent guided multi-media tour of Middle Earth and some genuinely good fan writing. Browse through the specials section, featuring fans whose work is also a cut above the ordinary.
One cast to rule them all
http://hometown.aol.com/averybadcat/tolkien-cast.html: The exuberant site design is matched here only by site creator AVerybadcat's absolute determination to cast Middle Earth -- not the three Lord Of The Rings movies, not even the three books, but the entire world of Tolkien online.
The encyclopaedia of Arda
http://www.glyphweb.com/arda: "Arda" is the word in Tolkien's myth cycle for the world and all that is in it; for anyone who used to browse reference books for fun as a child, this is an irresistible path into Middle-Earth. Questions of who, what, where and how are answered as you wade into the story from almost any angle in this concise, beautifully cross-referenced site.
The land of shadow
http://www.thelandofshadow.com: The mix of LOTR quotes and art from various sources (including Tolkien's own stylings) is well chosen, and the site's carnage-and-darkness motif is a welcome change of pace after one too many ethereal fan tributes.
Tolkien's collecting resource
http://www.tolkiencollector.com: There's a little something for everyone - academics, movie fans, gamers --and a few big somethings for the deep-of-pocket.
Tolkien computer games
http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/: This site shows that with over 100 known games citing LOTR as an inspiration, it's not fair to deny that gamers too have a share in the LOTR legacy. It catalogues the games known to its author and includes a section on the Holy Grail of Middle Earth gaming, the legendary, revolutionary, never-released Sierra online multi player version.
AYYAPPA NAGUBANDI
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