This is fantastic! I read the Silmarillion when I was in high school, and while it was a bit difficult to get through at times, I was in complete awe of the world Tolkien had built. Seeing it all laid out like this is amazing.<p>(OT, but it looks like the page's character encoding is broken. And of course Firefox decided to ditch the ability to set the correct charset manually. The "Repair Text Encoding" button isn't working for me.)
Did Tolkein somehow keep track of all this in his head, or did he draw family trees himself?<p>And are there any examples of mistakes in LOTR where he messes up the chronology or anything like that?
In like 15 mins I learned that Perin had a child that he named Farmir and that Aragorn (II) is a descendant of Elrond's twin brother who were both just half-elves themselves as their parents were both half-elven. And between Elrond and Aragorn there's like 60 generations of men.<p>Never really been interested in LotR lore, but I've read them multiple times and seen the movies many more times. Never seemed worth the times and sounded like dry work compared to the novels, but yeah this is pretty cool!
Launched in 2012, Wired did a feature on it with some exclusive infographics:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120911120029/http://wired.com/underwire/2012/09/st_hobbit_genealogy/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20120911120029/http://wired.com/...</a>
See also the Donald Duck Family Tree<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_family_(Disney)#Family_tree_by_Don_Rosa" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_family_(Disney)#Family_tr...</a> (though I prefer the illustrated version by Don Rosa)
As an (amateur) geneaologist I at once started looking for loops, and I was not disappointed. There seems to be some "endogamy" here, at least very distant cousin marriage.<p>I wonder if any book has actual, believable endogamy due to geographical constraints?