Intellectual property rights for items on these pages fall under two headings: things I own and things other people own.

Things I own.

This work is copyrighted from 2018 to John McKellar. All rights reserved.

What do I mean by ‘this work’? It comprises all the material appearing on this tree of linked web pages which does not accrue intellectual property rights in respect of some person other than myself.

In posting these items on publicly accessible web pages I am implicitly authorizing fair use of them. What I specifically do not authorize or countenance is commercial use. In lay terms, if you want to download and print any of the materials on these pages for your own enjoyment, that’s great. That’s what I put them here for. But if you make use of them to earn a profit for yourself, that is outside the rights I grant, and therefore illegal. (You will in that case probably also find yourself targeted by the far greater legal firepower of the Tolkien Estate.)

I claim complete rights in the names ‘Nixenárë’ (with or without the Umlauts) and ‘Rattlecone’. You may not use either in any public context without my permission.

Things other people own (plus some acknowledgments).

• The conception of Middle-earth, its characters and landscapes, and in particular the story of Beren and Lúthien, are all creations of J R R Tolkien and as such are copyright of The Tolkien Estate. I have invented characters, geographical details and incidents which do not appear in any of the materials protected by the Tolkien copyright, but it is the responsibility of the reader to determine which is which.
• I have occasionally in my work more or less directly copied material from The Silmarillion, as listed here.
• The font used in all the metallic-appearing titles on green background, also on the imagined book covers displayed on the root page, is ‘PR Uncial Alt Caps Extended’, which font is the invention and property of Peter Rempel; it is used here with his kind permission. I have in some instances made small alterations in the aspect ratio and/or kerning of the font.
• The font used for the map titles is ‘Carolingia’, which is the invention and property of William Boyd.
• The Tengwar-style font used for the script on the background image of most pages is ‘Tengwar Beleriand’, copyright 2008 by Enrique Mombello, all rights reserved.
• Book cover thumbnails:
  • Vol 1: This is a combination of an eagle photo by Scott MacDiarmid and a background by Ricardo Gomez Angel. Each of these images is used here with the respective owner’s kind permission.
  • Vol 2: This is a photo of stone figures at a temple called Rakanji in Nakatsu, Japan, which I found on the following blog. It is used with kind permission of the owner.
  • Vol 3: The base picture for this was found here.
  • Vol 4: This is a photo of Glen Affric which is owned by Colin Leslie and is used here with his kind permission.
  • Vol 5: The image was adapted (mostly I rotated the colour palette from blues to reds) from a photo by user ‘Schnobby’ in a Wikipedia article about fractals. The image is licensed under Creative Commons.
  • Vol 6: The original wolf image is used here with kind permission from Babs Baron.
• I made heavy use of the program gimp for the design and processing of the images on this set of pages.
• To achieve the metallic appearance of the header texts I followed approximately a procedure described by a GimpChat user who calls themselves Draconian.