Dead links

I have been updating the list of interesting links on the AFT/RABT
web-site at <users.silenceisdefeat.com/~aft-rabt/links.html> (with
mirror at <http://tolkien.forchhammer.net/links.html>). In the course
of updating, I ran the links through a link-checker, and found that a
number of the links have become dead. Since, however, a number of
these pages were either constructed by members of these groups, or
were of interest to us here, I'd like to hear if anyone knows, what
has become of the pages linked to.

The dead links are:


The Newsgroup History Project
This site held the meek beginnings of the AFT/RABT Newsgroup
History project. Unfortunately Geocities has closed. Does anyone
know if someone has the original source files?

<http://teunc.wikispaces.com/>
TEUNC Wiki
I can't get a response from wikispaces -- has this been closed down
or is this a temporary problem? If closed, has TEUNC moved this
content, or is is lost?

<http://fats.wikispaces.com/>
FATS Wiki
Same as with the TEUNC wiki

<http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/ENG/faculty/shippey.html">
Tom Shippey at Saint Louis University
This was included in lieu of a personal homepage for Tom Shippey,
and now seems to have been taken down. Does anyone know if Shippey
now has a personal home-page?

<http://www.merp.com/essays/MichaelMartinez/>
Michael Martinez Tolkien Essays at Merp.com Website
MERP had a number of interesting articles my Michael -- does anyone
know if these can now be found at a different address?

<http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/juliet.e.mckenna/articletolkien.html>
'Tolkien, Sinner or Saint' an article by Juliet E McKenna

<http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/>
The Softrat's home-page

<http://www.daisy.freeserve.co.uk/jrrt_int.htm>
J.R.R.Tolkien Interview Jan 1971 -- Recordings and transcript of an
interview with J.R.R. Tolkien by Dennis Gerrolt, first aired in
January 1971 on BBC4
It'll be a great pity, in my honest opinio, if this interview and
the transcript have become unavailable.

All of these have been removed from the list.

In all cases, I am very interested to hear if anyone knows anything
definite about the missing pages/site -- and if something constructed
by members of these groups, if anyone has access to the source files.


The intention of the update has, of course, not just been to remove
dead links, but also to add new ones. The (very) attentive reader
will (hopefully) notice two new sections -- one for blogs with
Tolkien contents (not necessarily in every entry, but often enough to
make it worthwhile in my opinion to follow the blog) and one for on-
line fora for discussion of Tolkien matters.

--
Troels Forchhammer <troelsfo(a)googlewave.com>
Valid e-mail is <troelsfo(a)gmail.com>
Please put [AFT], [RABT] or 'Tolkien' in subject.

Then suddenly the foresight of his kindred came to him, and
he said: "But lo! Master Elrond, the years of your abiding
run short at last, and the choice must soon be laid on your
children, to part either with you or with Middle-earth.
- Aragorn, /The Lord of the Rings/ (J.R.R. Tolkien)

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:03:50 +0100, Troels Forchhammer wrote:
> The dead links are:
>
>
> The Newsgroup History Project
> This site held the meek beginnings of the AFT/RABT Newsgroup
> History project. Unfortunately Geocities has closed. Does anyone
> know if someone has the original source files?

Are you sure about that URL? I broke my connection with Geocities
years before it died, because they suddenly denied me the ability to
edit my own pages, but it seems odd to have an email address as part
of a URL. I tried it anyway in the Internet Wayback Machine (see
below), but found nothing.

> <http://teunc.wikispaces.com/>
> TEUNC Wiki
> I can't get a response from wikispaces -- has this been closed down
> or is this a temporary problem? If closed, has TEUNC moved this
> content, or is is lost?

The Internet Wayback Machine is usually the first place to start, and
in this instance it found the pages:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://teunc.wikispaces.com/

> <http://fats.wikispaces.com/>
> FATS Wiki
> Same as with the TEUNC wiki

Nothing for this in the Wayback Machine.

> <http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/ENG/faculty/shippey.html">
> Tom Shippey at Saint Louis University
> This was included in lieu of a personal homepage for Tom Shippey,
> and now seems to have been taken down. Does anyone know if Shippey
> now has a personal home-page?

I removed the extra " at end and found this in the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/
*/http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/ENG/faculty/shippey.html

> <http://www.merp.com/essays/MichaelMartinez/>

http://web.archive.org/web/
*/http://www.merp.com/essays/MichaelMartinez/

Well, you get the idea. If you have sufficient space, you might want
to recover some of these, like Shippey's article, from the Wayback
Machine and host them yourself. (The Wayback Machine requires
Javascript.) I would not advocate it for pages with living authors.

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