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Altaira
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Jan 24 2012, 5:19pm
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From the Home Page: Student produces Middle-earth genealogy site
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I didn't want board members to miss this in case you don't make it to the Home Page very often. Thanks to MrCere for the write-up! -- Altaira Chemical Engineering student Emil Johansson has an amazing passion project he developed mapping out the genealogy of everybody in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Called the LOTR project, it provides a great big family tree for Tolkiendom. Its scope is amazing as is the effort and organization, although it is still a work in progress. We asked Johansson to tell us more about his project and this is what he had to say: "I first read the Lord of the Rings when I was eleven years old, just in time for the first movie to come out. At that point it's not fair to say I was passionate about it but rather that I found it a good way of escaping reality for a while. I was the kind of kid who lived a lot in my imagination. The first family tree I made was probably six years ago and consisted of two huge papers, 1 by 1 meters. I quickly realized this was something I wanted to share, but my knowledge of the web was too poor to allow it. I was not until November last year that I decided to give it a try. Even though much of the research already had been done, programming the site and adding the characters into the database have taken a lot of time. Too much for me to want to think about it. I still have a massive amount of work left before I'm finished and I will not give up until it is perfect." The site is a MUST VISIT.
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower "I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
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(This post was edited by Altaira on Jan 24 2012, 5:20pm)
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