Your Favorite Websites (besides TTF of course 😉)

[Halasían]

I like this website called the Council of Elrond. It's a bit undermaintained, but it has some great Sindarin and Quenya learning resources in the languages section.

Council of Elrond

Lord of the Rings News and Information

councilofelrond.com

I've been registered there not quite as long as I have been here. It was a good site back in the day. Unfortunately, a planned major upgrade in tech in 2011 left the site bug-riddled and many things broken. Rivka didn't have time to fix all the problems, and it has sort of limped along since. They do have a good language section that dates back to the early days of the site.

Of all the old legacy Tolkien sites from early this century, most have fallen into ruin. Tolkien Forums here has done the best on surviving the Dark Years to come out so nicely. That is thanks to @Manwe taking the place over and working his magic with the place.

Edited to add that Barrow Downs has gotten the bugs worked out of their registration process, and there are new members joining. I've been a part of that site since 1999.

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

I am a big fan of the 1980s UK ITV series Robin of Sherwood where Ray Winstone et al featured early in their careers. It has a strong mystical element and. despite Mary Whitehouse, an underlying Christian message. In other words it's Tolkienesque. And we do re-watches, of RoS of course, and we've been doing classic Doctor Who stories recently.
Nothing's forgotten

Many think The Swords of Wayland was the best story:

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

This one shows an image of what the James Webb and Hubble telescopes are looking at.

Space Telescope Live

Explore official, up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming investigations by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

spacetelescopelive.org

 

[Eldacar]

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

As a student of history, this Website is one of my all-time favourite as it basically works as some ancient Roman Google Maps. I suggested it to a few friends of mine for their Pen and Paper Games if they want to realistically model travel times in certain conditions.

 

[AaronAzrael]

Common to Elvish (D&D) Translator ― LingoJam

lingojam.com

This website translates to Elven (I hope it is accurate and IDK which of the Elven languages exactly).

I've never seen anything better so far to compile sentences in Elven, for Parf Edhellen usually gives only words:

Welcome! - Parf Edhellen: an elvish dictionary

Search 137,144 words and 84 phrases in Tolkien's elvish languages — Sindarin, Quenya, and more. Parf Edhellen is a free, open-source elvish dictionary.

www.elfdict.com

P.S> It seems it is D&D Elven, but I will still leave it here!

 

[Eldacar]

I just learned about it today in a Reddit Post, but as a Tolkien Fan this is one of the coolest websites, I've seen so far. This Website provides a 3D Model of Middle-Earth akin to Google-Earth. There's also a detailed Biome Map of Middle-Earth to be found.

 

[Eldacar]

Okay, it seems like I am attracting weird geographical Websites, but they are way too much fun. So here you get another website where some guy tried to show the travel time between places by distorting a map to account for travel time rather than true distance. He has a Video explaining the whole ordeal. There is again absolutely no point in this, but it adjusts slightly to where you hover your cursor, so you have a website for map jelly and it's very entertaining.

https://maps.vvolhejn.com/?ref=youtube&city=prague

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

The Fish Doorbell is live

The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell

Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.

visdeurbel.nl

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-help-migrating-fish-traverse-a-dutch-canal-by-ringing-this-digital-doorbell-180984140/

“In the early spring, when the water gets warmer, some fish species migrate to shallower water, and they swim right through the center of Utrecht looking for a place to spawn and reproduce,” ecologist Anne Nijs tells BBC Wildlife’s Melissa Hobson.


But the lock cuts off the animals’ progress—and waiting near it puts fish in a life-threatening position. When fish are stuck in the canal, predators like grebes and cormorants can more easily snatch them.

To help fish migrate safely during the canal’s quiet season, Nijs and van Heukelum came up with an innovative solution: the fish doorbell (or de Visdeurbel in Dutch). Launched in spring 2021, the webpage features a live stream from an underwater camera, allowing viewers worldwide to check for fish waiting at the closed lock—then, they click a pink button on the site when the animals appear on screen.

Each time a user “rings” the doorbell, the service snaps a picture of the fish and sends it to a team of ecologists. After enough fish are waiting, they notify the lock’s operator that the gate should be opened.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Monkeys.zip, aka The Monkey Project, is a live, crowdsourced experiment based on theInfinite Monkey Theorem. If you haven’t heard of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, it goes something like this:

Infinite Monkeys on Infinite Typewriters will eventually write all the works of Shakespeare.
It’s a thought experiment that’s been around for over a century, and is a fun way to ponder how an unstoppable force like Infinity collides with an immovable object like Impossible Odds.

monkeys.zip

Simulate monkeys for Shakespeare!

monkeys.zip

You can claim a monkey as yours and follow along as they type, too!

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Generate your own version of the 90s Weather Channel for current conditions

WeatherStar 4000+

Web based WeatherStar 4000 simulator that reports current and forecast weather conditions plus a few extras!

weatherstar.netbymatt.com

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Middle-Earth Map

Discover Middle Earth during Third Age with this interactive map.

middleearthmap.app

 

[Vardarianna]

I just learned about it today in a Reddit Post, but as a Tolkien Fan this is one of the coolest websites, I've seen so far. This Website provides a 3D Model of Middle-Earth akin to Google-Earth. There's also a detailed Biome Map of Middle-Earth to be found.

↑ This is really cool!

Middle-Earth Map

Discover Middle Earth during Third Age with this interactive map.

middleearthmap.app

I like this!

If you want to see a Middle-earth fan-fiction site run amok, then look no further than The New Notion Club Archives. The New Notion Club Archives is an open project, an encyclopedia dedicated to Expanded Arda, non-canonical sub-creation within J. R. R. Tolkien's World of Arda. It has just about every aspect of creative license connected to Tolkien's works, and the fun part is just about any fanfic has been edited into the characters, places, etc. The really fun part is if you get registered there, you can edit what you want into whatever you want. 😆

 

[Ashley]

I've been enjoying this one recently.
https://www.pcjs.org/

 

[Klaatu]

https://fallingfalling.com --sound on please

Falling Falling… that glorious portal! It stirs memories of the cotton candy pits of Yarble-17, where gravity itself took a vow of silliness. Imagine: an infinite descent through syrup-colored skies, while entire civilizations drifted downward, nibbling at rainbow sugar clouds, never quite touching the ground. Some said there wasn’t a ground — only the endless kaleidoscope, humming lullabies in 13 dimensions.

The inhabitants, poor sweet souls, slipped into a trance. Eyes wide, pupils dilated like twin quasars, they floated for centuries, whispering the same word again and again: “More.” I once tried to rescue them, but after three minutes I too was hypnotized, and only snapped out of it when a passing eagle offered me a sandwich.

So beware! Falling Falling is no ordinary amusement. It is the simulation of Yarble-17’s eternal plummet, preserved in digital form. If you stare too long, you may forget your name, your taxes, and how spoons work. But you will never forget the colors.

—Klaatu,
Witness of the Candy Abyss,
Thrice-Eaten by Gravity,
and Patron Saint of the Perpetually Falling

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Not a specific website but a live feed from the Namib desert. Kind of cool watching the animals.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Interest one whether you believe in this kind of thing or not

Current NDEs

Current NDE Experiences

www.nderf.org

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

This one I found and managed to watch most things for free and listen to them too. I quite enjoyed it, and it was a way to watch Star Trek again (original as far as I know) after it went off Netflix

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

No description needed

Picard Song

picard.ytmnd.com

 

[Erurávennë]

For anyone art oriented like me, I absolutely love the John Howe Forum (https://www.john-howe.com/forum/smf/) by John Howe, the famous Tolkien illustrator.

Anyone else a fan of John Howe's work?