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The Full Family Tree - After studying the family Trees at the back of the Sil and the lists of kings of Numenor, Gondor, Arnor and Rohan I realized that you could make one giant family tree with the ancestors of Elwing and Earendil all the way down to Aragorn and Faramir...so I am trying to do that...
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I actually did this about a year ago. It was before I read the Silmarillion, I think, but I had the book and I was looking through it for Elvish names and their meanings. When I found the family trees, I began to study them immensely hard and long.
I spent the next few days writing the names on paper and trying to piece the pages together. I found that certain families appeared about 3 or 4 times throughout the family tree. It's amazing the information I found when I was doing this. I now have the complete family tree stretched out over about 4 pieces of notebook paper, and I am still trying to figure out how to do a proper display of it on the computer.
It's very interesting though, and I have found myself doing many project relating to LOTR. I don't know how many colloges I've done with pictures, and I once printed out a huge map of the 3rd age of ME and traced a line showing Frodo and Sam's travels from Hobbiton to Mount Doom. I have the map hanging on my wall.
But no, you are definitly not the only one who does things like this. Or maybe I'm just sad and pathetic as well, who know, who cares, but you're not alone, willkill.