Tolkien Oral History Project

[delphipsmith]

Well now, this is fun: The Department of Special Collections at Marquette’s Raynor Memorial Library, which is home to much of Tolkien's original papers, is creating a collection of interviews of Tolkien fans. Their goal is to collect 6,000 audio interviews. Why 6000, you ask? One for each of the Riders of Rohan that Théoden mustered and led to the aid of Gondor, of course:

[S]ix thousand spears to Sunlending,
Mundburg the mighty under Mindolluin,
Sea-kings' city in the South-kingdom
foe-beleaguered, fire-encircled...

Find out more here ==> https://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/Mss/JRRT/fandomoh.php.