Featured Forums Here are some of the interesting discussions currently taking place in our forums.     Shibboleth of Fëanor The Second Prophecy (and related subjects)     The hands of a king are the hands of a healer     Tolkien's Expanding Universe     The LOTR Discussion Book 1, Chapter 10: Strider     Book 1, Chap. 9: At the Sign of the Prancing Pony     Tolkien's Letters Tolkien's Letter 52: On Politics     Letter 186: On the "real theme" of LOTR, etc.     Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On Tolkien Estate Sues New Line, The Hobbit Not Yet Threatened     Lasto Beth Lammen President Obama: What's next?     Arda Unmarred Nature Pics

Featured Members Here are some of the many interesting artistic endeavors of our members.   Our very own Whistler, invites you to check out his on-line gallery of beautiful artwork. To see them all, go here       Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion, a book written by our Thain, Voronwë_the_Faithful, is being published by the Lehigh University Press, with illustrations by the amazingly talented Breogán . It should be available by the end of March. For more information, go to Arda-Reconstructed.com. An excerpt from the fall issue of MythLore, the journal of the Mythopoeic Society, can be read here. To order from Amazon, go here.   The Dark Reaches, the third book in the exciting science fiction series by one of our Marshals, Primula Baggins, will be published by Ace Books on June 30, 2009, following the success of the first two books, The Hidden Worlds and The Cold Minds. For more information, go to kristinlandon.com. To pre-order The Dark Reaches from Amazon, go here. To order The Cold Minds from Amazon, go here. To order The Hidden Worlds from Amazon, go here.   Our Web Istar, Alatar, is appearing now in the amateur Irish Premier of All Shook Up, playing Jim Haller, a lonely widower who looks for love in the wrong places before finding it was there all along! For more information, go to shannonmusical.com.