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Kyranger
Loremaster of Gondor - Rank 5
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Date: Apr 9, 2012
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Does anyone know what happened to the Thains Book website? It's one of my favorite Tolkien sites, I don't know how many people here use it, but I've been unable to access it for the past few weeks.



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Bear
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Kyranger,

I lost it too.

I got a message when I tried to access it that was removed by those who had sponsored it.

I loved it.  And wish I could find it again ... but my best google search led to nothing! (sigh)cry



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Huan the great hound
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What all did this website supply? And do you know what the name of this sponser was?

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Bear
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Huan,

It was a encyclopedia of all things Tolkien.  It was a tongue and cheek resource based on "Redbook" kept by the hobbits .  The Thain's Book was a reference of hobbit history and the world view in the Shire.


It is/was an excellent reference for things in The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and the Silmarillion.


Here is the last "address" I have for "The Thain's Book".
http://www.tuckborough.net/



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Bellandor
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Kyranger wrote:

Does anyone know what happened to the Thains Book website? It's one of my favorite Tolkien sites, I don't know how many people here use it, but I've been unable to access it for the past few weeks.

 I have been browsing the web to try and locate the website but to no avail.  A bit of information I did pick up from the web a day ago was that The Thain's Book(Tuckborough.net) is up for sale for just under $2000.  It looks like it was plagued with a lot of security problems, I know, because when I did try to access the website a message would come up that the site was dangerous and contained malware.  Like many other people, I am a big fan of the website and It was an excellent online reference library for all things Tolkien.

So perhaps Tolkien fans may come to the rescue of this wonderful website.



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Arborious
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Hey guys,

I saw this thread and remembered how much I loved that site as well. I decided to search a little known resource I learned about a couple years back and I think you all will be as happy as I was. Check out the following link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110628170117/http://tuckborough.net/

I'd love to copy all the content and start a new site with it but I don't know if there are legal issues with doing it. Anyway, I think all the content is there and the linking seems to work.

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UffoBoffin
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It's back here: http://thainsbook.net.



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sirkubador
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Hi fellow fans,

I have just revived the Thain's Book (original tuckborough.net, then thainsbook.net) on a new address - thainsbook.minastirith.cz (kind of Thain's book is located in Minas Tirith now ;) ). This is more of a call to original author to claim his or her rights. I plan to update it a bit for 2019 in terms of code/mobile devices, etc. and translate it eventually, if I am not forced to shut it down sooner.

If you know anything about the original author, if you talked to him or her back in 2011, please, let me know!

Thanks

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