A Network of Imagination. Mythgard Institute. Usque ad ultimum terrae. An Unexpected Party - Thror's map and Dwarf Runes. - Of Thorin Oakenshield and The Hobbit - a perspective from across the Tasman. Loving maps as I do, I couldn't resist posting Thror's map here.
As explained earlier, Gandalf, while on a reconnoitre in Dol Guldur, came across a dying dwarf in the dungeons. The dwarf placed a map and a key into Gandalf's safekeeping asking him to hand them to his son. It was many years later that Gandalf realised that he had been speaking to Thrain II and that Thorin was his son. J.R.R. Tolkien used a variant of anglo saxon runes to compose the Dwarf Runes.
The company were able to ascertain that this map had directions to a secret entrance into Erebor. These runes stand for "Th" "Th" and are Thror and Thrain's initials. "Five feet high the door and three may walk abreast" In Chapter 3, as the company stays in Rivendell, Elrond is able to discover that the map contained moon letters which were rune letters that were only visible on the evening when there was a moon of the same shape and in the same season as the evening they were written.
Films. Mithril Miniatures. Games Workshop. The Encyclopedia of Arda. The Encyclopedia of Arda is a personal project - a tribute to and a celebration of the works of J.R.R.
Tolkien. The site is evolving into an illustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples. It already contains about four thousand entries, and we're constantly adding new entries and expanding existing ones. Inside the encyclopedia The Encyclopedia of Arda contains thousands of articles covering topics from J.R.R. You'll also find a selection of interactive tools, including a chronicle to help you explore Tolkien's fictional history, and calendar to translate dates and events, a lexicon of names, a glossary of old and rare words, and much more. Context and approach The content of the Encyclopedia is written in the same context as Tolkien himself used; he presented himself simply as a translator, rather than originator of the tales. About the name Arda Special thanks But the real Special Thanks, though, belong to the memory of J.R.R.
JRR Tolkien Biography - The Tolkien Society. Photo by Pamela Chandler. © Diana Willson.
Used with permission. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of our world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent “counter-culture” largely because of his concern with environmental issues. Then they moved to the somewhat more pleasant Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston. Tolkien family life was generally lived on the genteel side of poverty. However, another complication had arisen.
Official Tolkien Book Shop. Middle-Earth Wiki Portal. A blog meant for beginners, and avid fans alike, to J.R.R. Tolkien. Exploring all kinds of concepts and issues from the author's imaginary world and his other influential writings. John Ronald Reul Tolkien.