Here’s a question: Just how many men were there in the West? And were they friends, cousins or perhaps even brothers?
Even if those questions weren’t troubling you as you left the theater, they were on the mind of Emil Johansson, a university student in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Johansson has spent the past several years creating a comprehensive census and family tree of all the characters — over 900 of them — created by Tolkien for his fantasy world.
If you’d like to see this family tree, check it out here.
4 responses to “For Middle-Earth, One Family Tree To Rule Them All”
I’m puzzled about the inclusion of non-canon characters. ??
Non-canon characters are important to the development of Middle-Earth in Tolkien’s mind. In the future (when I find the time) I will enable to show only characters from certain books as well as only characters that are canon.
/ Emil
Ok, I see. Well, that’s a mighty project and I commend you for putting this tree together. I’ll be spending some poring over it.
*spending some time poring over it* ~ that is what I meant to say. 🙂