Welcome to the beginnings of a
Tolkien Glossary

In many projects within the Digital Tolkien Project it will be helpful to have word-level information. This includes frequency, lemmatization, etymology, part-of-speech, grammatical role, semantic classification, collocations, speaker, and more. The goal of the Tolkien Glossary is to provide a database of this information, easily browseable on the web, and usable in text analysis projects.

This site is still experimental and has omissions and works-in-progress, but you can check out the existing Tags or try looking up a word or tag in box above.

Lots more coming in the weeks ahead, but remember:

“We have a long way to go, and there is time ahead for thought. It is something to have started.”

— Treebeard, LR 3.04.181

If you have suggestions, including new tags to classify words with (and especially if you are willing to help with the tagging), please join our Discord.