Timeline

I know I haven't posted much of late, but I have been busy... Here are some screen shots of a tool I hope to release later this summer (along with the source code.) I'm still working on some simple issues like removing the XML extensions from titles and some error checking, but it is mostly working...

It is NOT an editor, but a tool for creating new timelines and adding events to existing ones... It does not support Event Groups or Hyperlinks at this time...

It does support multiple forms of dates (YYYY, cYYYY, -YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, etc.) It also allows for limited Description support.

Anyway, here are some screen shots:

The Story of the Storyteller

Since I was a small child I have been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic mythology embodied both in The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, including the equally grand back story of the Silmarillion . To tell the truth, these are the only books in addition to the Bible which I have ever managed to really read more than once. Oh, other books which I own frequently find themselves upon my desk but they arrive for the purpose of quick references or meager refreshers and they depart long before a thorough reading ever becomes a true possibility. I bore too quickly to read most stories fact or fiction over again. I am the same with movies. If I have seen a movie one time that is more than sufficient for a lifetime. Again the singular exception has been Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Trilogy to film. (I note with excessive glee that all of the issues between Jackson and New Line Cinema has been rectified and that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are returning to produce both “The Hobbit” as well as a second bridge film that tells the story from the end of the Hobbit to the start of the Fellowship of The Ring. )

Having read a few biographies of the man who penned the Hobbits into existence I sat down to create my first ever (if somewhat whimsical) timeline for Libronix – the Life of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

How important is what we do after we turn our backs on God? For Amaziah, I saw nothing for the last 15 years of his life... Here we have a man who did the right things for the wrong reasons, which led to him doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons... Pride goes before a fall, and here is an example... "But for the grace of God, there go I..." Always be on guard that you depend on God and not on man's wisdom...

This Timeline also links to the Bible and Spade collection as I had trouble finding maps in the usual collections...