Digital Tolkien Project

HoMeBase

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This site is intended to be the hub of the Digital Tolkien Project’s work on The History of Middle-earth series edited by Christopher Tolkien. We are at an early stage of development, working on The Book of Lost Tales (‘transversely’) and the Music of the Ainur / Ainulindalë (‘longitudinally’), and our goal is to provide a foundation for education and scholarship with an initial focus on metadata, search, data models, bibliography, and citation systems.

We are ‘working with the garage door open’ which means much of what appears here is provisional and incomplete. We welcome feedback and suggestions as we continue to develop the site.

Please contact us if we can assist in your research in any way.

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Search HoMe (prototype)

Look up the (preliminary) citation reference for a passage or see the distribution of terms and phrases. Currently only the Book of Lost Tales P-text and all text types in the Music of the Ainur are supported.

For P-text, references are to paragraph numbers within that text. For all other text types, references are to paragraph numbers relative to the entire chapter. This is very much subject to change as we get feedback and refine our citation system.

The search is case-insensitive and all punctuation and diacritics are stripped. Phrases up to seven words long can be searched for. For copyright reasons, no actual text is displayed. To learn more about text types, see the Data Model.

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