Digital Tolkien Project

A thread about our various public sites...

Coupled with the descriptive elements provided by The Nature of Middle-earth, I hope, in some adaptation, we see a book-accurate version of Gollum! Slimy, yes, and pale-skinned but almost entirely *clothed* and only perceived as dark and often hard to see for just that reason. And with pockets!

Additions made by Tolkien in later editions to correct visual depictions of Gollum like Tove Jansson's.

Additions made by Tolkien in later editions to correct visual depictions of Gollum like Tove Jansson's.

Comparing the digital first edition of the Hobbit to our latest digital edition has found one additional correction to make to the latter so far. We'll update the article at annotations.digitaltolkien.com/articles/upd... once it's been established whether any more changes need to be made.

This is already about to hit $1m, 20x their goal. These were already on my list to digitize, index, and produce detailed linguistic and narrative analyses of (like what we do at @digitaltolkien.com or @projectamaze.com) but I might prioritize them now. All unofficially of course, unless...

third pass of proof-reading the digital 1st Edition Hobbit is complete

Okay, Cite Tolkien now has OG cards: cite.digitaltolkien.com/LR/2.01.003/

home.digitaltolkien.com/search/?term...

Okay, Cite Tolkien now has OG cards: cite.digitaltolkien.com/LR/2.01.003/

Tolkien's light as a licensing history: Two Trees: open access, geoblocked Silmarils: all rights reserved, oath-enforced Sun & Moon: lossy public release Eärendil's star: CC0 Galadriel's Phial: CC BY-SA White Tree: a fork lineage

added profiles links to this account!

preparing my second week lecture for Digital Tolkien

This was my first copy of The Hobbit that started it all for me.

I don’t know what kind of lectures you’re attending today, wherever you are in the world, but I’m pretty sure your lecturer didn’t show up dressed as a hobbit, with a pipe instead of a laser pointer! 🧙‍♂️ Yes, this is the first lecture of Digital Tolkien, taught by @jtauber.com.

Looks like we might hit an important milestone just in time for the one year anniversary of HoMe Base in a couple of weeks.

Oxford Tolkien Network has a new URL: tolkien-network.ox.ac.uk

When asked what image would be appropriate for my Digital Tolkien class starting next week, there could be only one choice: Gandalf on a MacBook :-)

Eglerio! and Congrats to the @digitaltolkien.com team for this excellent and very helpful chronology of the narrative frame in #Tolkien’s Book of Lost Tales which was the subject of my Phd thesis and I am currently re-reading for an upcoming new paper. home.digitaltolkien.com/frame-timeli...

Added a waterfall tile for the Falls of Rauros: jtauber.github.io/u5me/#1084,855

New article! annotations.digitaltolkien.com/articles/upd...

New article! annotations.digitaltolkien.com/articles/upd...

That blue Houghton Mifflin copy is my favorite.

This semester in Text & Language: 🧙 Digital Tolkien 🐍 Applying Python for Digital Humanities and Social Studies 🗺️ GIS und Geodatenanalyse 📚 Vertiefung in die DH Explore texts, language, programming and computational methods in WiSe 2026/27. Full overview: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2026/10/07/e...

Spotted in the background of @siracusa.social's appearance on the (excellent!) podcast @designedinca.bsky.social

Ultima V styled Middle-earth map jtauber.github.io/u5me/ Initially generated from Tolkien's maps but I've made various manual corrections. Let me know if you notice anything off. Scale is one tile/mile.

This 👆🏻

Search HoMe now reports P-text search hits with page numbers. home.digitaltolkien.com/search/

Have been preparing a revision to the base text of The Hobbit we use. Only a handful of very minor changes made but we've cross-checked about 24 discrepancies in five e-books with another eight print books. Article coming on annotations.digitaltolkien.com later this week.

5 minutes!!!!

Less than two hours away!!

Four more hours :-)