Close the book The world this is built from The Lord of the Rings Translated from the Red Book · Bag End · the Third Age ····

There and back again

The Red Book of Westmarch

Every room on this site, set down as a waypoint on one road: out of the Shire, over the mountains, and in at the end. Begun by Bilbo, finished by Frodo, and left to Sam, who had the sense to go on living in it.

One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them.

Kept by
Abubakr Elmallah
Of
Computer Science, UC Irvine, class of 2028
Office
Lead mobile & backend developer
Deeds set down
Twelve apps, four platforms
Lands charted
Seventy-four worlds
Drawn with
CSS and SVG, no images

The road goes ever onevery page, a waypoint between Bag End and the Mountain

  1. League I · the ShireBag EndhomeA green door with a round window, and no adventures expected before tea.
  2. League II · the RoadThe Road Outhigh schoolLeaving the Shire on foot, with far too much luggage and no map.
  3. League III · RivendellThe House of ElrondeducationWhere the council sits, the lore is kept and the road is argued over.
  4. League IV · MoriaThe Deep Hallscollege · UC IrvineComputer Science, class of 2028. You do not go through it quickly, and something is always awake.
  5. League V · RohanThe Golden Hallwork at UC IrvineLead mobile & backend work: a hall, a muster, and a ride when called.
  6. League VI · the ForgeThe Smithiesevery projectTwelve apps on four platforms, each one hammered out and marked.
  7. League VII · the MapAll the Landsall 74 worldsSeventy-four of them written up, and the edges still marked unknown.
  8. League VIII · this bookThe Tale ItselfThe Lord of the Rings · the world pageNine walkers against nine riders, twenty rings, and one road.
  9. League IX · the WildLands WalkedtravelsEverywhere the road has actually gone, which is further than expected.
  10. League X · the HoursDawn and NightfallAl-IslamPrayer times worked out twenty-two ways, kept wherever the road is.
  11. League XI · the TonguesThe Many Speechesaccents & impersonationsTolkien built the languages first. This is the same instinct, less rigorously applied.
  12. League XII · the InnThe Prancing PonygamingWhere the evening goes long and somebody always stands on a table.
  13. League XIII · the StarsA Farther GalaxyStar Wars appsAnother long war over a small object, fought with rather more light.
  14. League XIV · the ArmoryNamed Bladesthe lightsaber guideEvery blade attributed, as a proper appendix ought to do it.
  15. League XV · the MountainThe Last PagerésuméOne page, and the only thing anyone actually asks to see.

The Fellowshipnine who set out

  1. Datapad

    Top 10 of the paid Entertainment chart. The one carrying the thing.

  2. Al-Adhan

    Reads the sun for prayer times, twenty-two ways. Steady, and always there.

  3. Order 66

    The first one made alone, in 2021. Younger than the rest, and game for it.

  4. The UCI Esports app

    The arena, its PCs and its events. The one who knows the ground.

  5. Two Discord bots

    Riding in more than 500 servers. They go where they are sent.

  6. The Swift Student Challenge

    Won in 2024. The one with the sword that was broken and reforged.

  7. Seventy-four worlds

    Charted on /worlds/. The lore-keeper, and the longest appendix.

  8. Twenty-five terminals

    This one among them. The ones who went off on their own errands.

  9. Whatever is next

    Not written yet. Every Red Book has blank pages left at the back.

The seeing-stoneslook into the other terminals

The world this is built from The Lord of the Rings

The Grey Havens

Well, I’m back.

Walk back up the Hill