The ruined watchtower above the valley

Amon Lendel

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envisioning J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth

lore · language · cræft

somewhere in The Angleenter
the old watchtower

Looking out
onto the Professor’s
secondary world

Between the Hoarwell and Loudwater, in the years after Rhudaur fell, someone kept on copying.

Amon Lendel is an imagined scriptorium and a real notebook: essays on the legendarium and its languages, and the craft work that grows out of reading them. Nothing here is canon. All of it follows the books.

more about the house →
the writing desk

Lately copied

essaysnewest first

  1. Water Carriers of Middle-earth: a survey

    forthcoming

    Deck forthcoming.

  2. The Lore-keepers of Minas Tirith

    linguistics · spring 2018

    What the archives of the Tower of Guard held, who kept them, and the scripts grown dark to later men.

  3. Farm Economics and Deep Authenticity

    c. 2016

    Deck forthcoming.

marginalia →all essays →
the workbench

Cræft

Things made with the hands while the essays are being written: bindings, lettering, maps.

metal casting

Silver pennies of the Breelands

Small silver coin for a market purse, struck with legends and stars.

see the project →cooking

A Ranger's kettle

An open-fire kettle with an engraved band, hung under stone.

see the project →metal casting

Of buckles

Belt and strap buckles, from first casting to finished leather.

see the project →