It's terribly easy to get lost in Emil Johansson's Lord of the Rings Project, an extensive series of charts, maps, and genealogies analyzing J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. His latest update to the project is a real treat: a statistical analysis of the appearance of words and characters in The Lord of the Rings, The…
Timeline for The Lord of the Rings told in a giant ring chart
Behold the timeline for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit told in giant ring chart porn! Experience J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastic quest, in one easy-to-read graphic. Created by Emil Johansson, whose Tolkien infographics we've featured before.
The chart that proves just how much of a sausage fest Middle Earth is
It will surprise no one that the works of J.R.R. Tolkien overwhelmingly feature male characters. After all, Peter Jackson had to invent characters in order to cast more than one actress in The Hobbit. But just how big is the Middle Earth gender gap?
Interactive Lord of the Rings timeline shows exactly where in Middle…
If you've spent hours flipping back and forth between the J.R.R. Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth and the prose in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, then take some time with Emil Johansson's interactive chronology of the series, which lets you hover over an event and see just where it took place.
One guy's attempt to map every family tree on Middle-earth
Chemical engineering student Emil Johansson has a very simple goal: "to place every character in J.R.R Tolkien's fictional universe in a family tree." For his Lord of The Rings Project, he's gone far and beyond Gimli, son of Glóin. Get lost among the infinite progeny on Middle-earth right here.
