Internets: making lives and books with nearly incomprehensible family trees easier

http://www.lotrproject.com/

I made the same for Dracula characters.

Ever read 100 years of solitude? It follows 7 generations of a Spanish family. Half the characters are either called Jose Arcadio or Aureliano. My version of the book had a family tree as an appendix, and a good thing too...I could have never finished it without constantly referring to it in order to know who the subject of the sentence was.

Just saying, it's obsession with tracing imaginary family trees that enabled the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh to befuddle the minds of fundamentalists down through the ages with the notion that the earth was created 4003 years, 7 days and 6 hours before the birth of jesus.

Fortunately I don't think Arwen and Aragorn would ever use their family lineages for nefarious purposes.

Holy cow, Arwen must have lived a long time before she met Aragorn.

If I recall correctly, Arwen was several thousand years old when she married Aragorn.

Quote:As told in "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen",[1] Aragorn in his twentieth year met Arwen for the first time in Rivendell, where he lived under Elrond's protection. Arwen, then over 2,700 years old, had recently returned to her father's home after living for a while with her grandmother Lady Galadriel in Lórien. Aragorn fell in love with Arwen at first sight. Some thirty years later, the two were reunited in Lórien. Arwen reciprocated Aragorn's love, and on the mound of Cerin Amroth they committed themselves to marry one another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwen

Hm, I have a copy of the Silmarillion with family trees. I'm pretty sure one of my Lord of the Rings guidebook-type novels has a family tree too. They could just scan it in. Easy peezy. You even get the gods and the parentage of Shelob.

My original copies didn't. My 3-in-one illustrated tome does. And some people read the electronic version. [shrugs] Thought it was a good resource regardless.