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News from Bree
spymaster@theonering.net
Oct 7 2012, 6:00pm
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New update at the LOTR Project
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 Emil Johansson is the brains behind LOTR Project. His site, you may recall, brought us the Middle-earth family tree.
Now he's unveiled an extension to the project that collates population statistics from extant Middle-earth resources, and explores various age and life-expectancy trends. Johansson describes it as an exploration of the world of Tolkien through numbers.
Johansson told TheOneRing.net that the most time-consuming part was entering the information on 923 different characters into the database -- their age at death, gender, and race.
"The most interesting thing is perhaps the graph of the decline of the longevity of Men," he said.
"There is a clear pattern. What surprised me the most was how long Aragorn lived compared to many of his ancestors. After reading up on Aragorn's death I learned he was the first Numenorean in a long time who was given the grace to go at his own will."
He said that he has plans for a collaborative project where people can interact freely with a Middle-Earth map much like Google maps.
"Further integration of a map feature will allow me to tie each character to one or more locations," he said.
"Much of the beauty of this project is I do not know what I will do next. Things just happen."
Link: LOTR Project statistics
(This post was edited by entmaiden on Oct 9 2012, 2:16am)
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DanielLB
Elvenhome
Oct 8 2012, 7:03am
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What a great addition. -- Contains Hobbit film spoilers
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It really is a great site. I'm always checking my family trees on this website, especially when I don't have a book handy.
To me, this is one of the most interesting outputs. I think this is a great justification as to why AUJ should end in Mirkwood.
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weaver
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Oct 9 2012, 2:24am
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wow, this almost makes me like math!
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and that's saying a lot!
Interesting to see everything all graphed out like that...very cool!
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Oct 9 2012, 4:35pm
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*eyes green with envy* This is wonderful!
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Massive Kudos! A genuine work of passion, love and devotion. WELL DONE!
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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