MIDDLE-EARTH TIMELINE
The Digital Tolkien Project is a scholarly project led by James Tauber that applies corpus linguistics and digital humanities methods to Tolkien's texts. Started in September 2018 with the markup of The Hobbit, it has grown into a set of free online tools built with a team of contributors: Search Tolkien, Cite Tolkien, a Tolkien glossary, timelines, a database of Tolkien books and more.
The project won the Tolkien Society Award for Best Online Content in 2025, and James Tauber is also a co-host of The Rings of Power Wrap-up with The Prancing Pony Podcast. For readers who like to count breakfasts and check who says what, this is the toolbox.
James Tauber's digital humanities project on Tolkien's texts, with free search, citation, glossary and timeline tools.
