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Amber Williams applauds the work of Emil Johannson, the proprietor of lotrproject.com, perhaps the most neurotically wonderful resource for Tolkien fans imaginable:
Johansson is on a quest to track every character from Tolkien’s fictional world. He started by creating a massive family tree, and from there he crafted an interactive map of Middle-earth and a timeline of events in Tolkien’s stories. He has even performed statistical analyses on the characters’ race, lifespan, and gender. Johansson points out that the lopsided gender split (81 percent male, 19 percent female) reflects the world Tolkien included in his tales of the ultimate war, but probably not Middle-earth in its entirety.
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