This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Aure entuluva! day shall come again!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
"Behind that, there was something else at work, beyond any design of the ring maker. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien