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We are just working on costumes for Lord of the Ring.  However, there are many, many sites out there that cover many aspects of the J. R. Tolkien's books and the worlds he created.  Whole communities have evolved.  Here are just a few of the main ones for you to explore and expand your knowledge of his world.

Community Links Index

• LOTR Community - Non-Costume

  • Language

  • Travel

• Various Fabric/Clothing related LOTR groups

  • Sims Skin

• Movie Costume Communities out on the Web (non-LOTR) - MOVED!

Non-Costume LOTR Community

• Mythopoeic Society
  • www.mythsoc.org
  • "An international literary and educational organization for the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantasy and mythic literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams"
• The One Ring .net
  • www.TheOneRing.net
  • Our favorite for the ultimate site for Lord of the Rings news.  They have a daily news section that covers everything and anything even vaguely related to LOTRs.  

• The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship

  • http://www.elvish.org
  • The ultimate site for learning the elfish language.
    • They are the ones that Christopher Tolkien has sent copies of his father's language notes. They worked with Peter Jackson's people. Bill Welden is one of them.
    • They just added a whole new linguistic reference section to the site. 
    • Included is a whole section on the movies.
  • They are as detail oriented as we are (or maybe even more so) except they deals with letters and sounds instead of fabrics and shapes.
• More Elvish translation
  • http://hem.passagen.se/noldo/tolkien.html
  • http://www.dragons-inn.org/Ifreann/eng_elf.html
  • http://www.geocities.com/almacq.geo/sindar/sdintro.html
  • http://www.grey-company.org/Circle/language/phrase.htm
  • http://www.elendor.net/translator.php
  • http://quenya.tripod.com/translator.htm
  • http://www.elvish.org/
  • The Ardalambion:
    • http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/index.html
  • The English-Quenya Dictionary:
    • http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/4101/e-q.html
  • A Quenya Course:
    • http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/qcourse.htm
  • A very detailed links page
    • http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/links.htm
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• Travel destinations in Middle-earth
  • Remember, the sets have been taken down and the area's restored to their original condition
  • http://www.purenz.com/homeofmiddleearth/
  • http://www.jasons.co.nz/destinationlordoftherings/
  • 'Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook' by Ian
    Brodie. ISBN is 1869504526
    • http://www.harpercollins.co.nz/books/bestsellers/Best_NZ.cfm

Misc extra pics

• The National Geographic special section
  • http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/ 
• The New York Times special section
  •  http://www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/index.html
    • Tolkien archives

  Our costume links for this site can be found in our Resource section <here>.  This includes more news links.

Thank  you to Lisa for the links.

Various groups and websites for costume/clothing related LOTR

• Everyday Elf - Wearing elf style clothing in daily life
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/everydayelf
• Middle-earth Decor - decorating the Tolkien way
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_earth_decor/
• For you LOTR knitters out there
  • http://www.livejournal.com/community/lotr_knits/
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Note... there are many groups that do LARP (Live Action Roll Playing).  Google for those, there are hundreds and are geographically related so we don't list those here.

Sim Skins for LOTR Costumes

• http://phantom.kirenet.com/~spirited/ts/giysilerkadin.htm
  • The site is not in English, tab 12 and 13
  • A number of the women's gowns are available as skins
• http://www.geocities.com/skinsforsims/lotrskins.html
• http://simlab.geog.arizona.edu/~una/frames/objects_themeslotr.html
  • skins and decor
• LOTR Dollz
  • http://www.geocities.com/movie_dollz_1/lotr.html
  • Main site: Movie Dollz

Cross-stitch patterns

• Charted photos of Boromir, Arwen and Legolas
  • http://www.tazzie.mystics.co.uk/cross-stitch/cross-stitch.htm
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If you would like to add to our links, please contact us at dacat@AlleyCatScratch.com

Launch points to more movie costume discussion

We can't make LOTR Costumes all the time.  Looking for more movie costume info?

We've moved our costume links over to our Movie Section

OK... and if you're going... where are all our LOTR Costume links... check out our Research Links

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• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LOTR_Costume/message/749 - privacy cleanup from April
• To get rid of web bots...
  •  http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html and then go to the paragraph titled "Outside Yahoo! Network" and click on the link "opt out".

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