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Camouflage

History and philosophy of science

History of Physics

History of Biology

Agriculture

Biology

Drawings

Diagrams

Mimicry and speciation

Genetics and development

Lamarckism

Interspecific relationships

Magnetoreception, electroreception, and mechanoception

Origin of life

The Nick Lane scenario

not to mention the Template:Abiogenesis timeline ...

Sequence of diagrams

Phylogenetic trees

I've also put together a lot of phylogenetic trees. Here's a small one.

Carnivora

Feliformia Ocelot

    Caniformia   

Canidae African golden wolf

    Arctoidea   
   

Pinnipedia Common seal

Musteloidea

Ailuridae, inc. red panda Red panda

Other musteloids European polecat

Aristotelian biology models

Maps

Maps of Russian military deception at Stalingrad, with both enemy and actual dispositions

And similarly at Kursk

Kilim

This is just a sample: I drew quite a few more, look in the Kilim motifs article if you're curious.

Explanations

Tolkien's Middle-earth

Cosmology

Sketch maps

Infographic maps

Analyses

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Scripts

Mandalas

Image maps and timeline

Tolkien influences timeline
Date Influences Elements [1] [2] [3]
c. 1900 First World War
  Battle of the Somme
  Tanks

Mordor
Metal dragons at Gondolin
Victorian era Bag End, Hobbit lifestyle
Modern literature
  William Morris
  Rider Haggard's She

Dead Marshes, Mirkwood
Saruman's shrivelling death
c. 1800 Antiquarianism Poems, maps, scripts, artwork, genealogy
c. 1600 Shakespeare
  Macbeth
Prophecy of Witch-King's death
c. 1400 Late Medieval Cosmology, magic, named weapons, heraldry, interlaced narrative
c. 1000 Early Medieval
  Crist I
  Beowulf
  Sigelwara

Eärendil, light
Elves, Ents, Orcs; Rohan
Silmarils, Balrogs, Harad
c. 400 Romano-British
  Temple of Nodens

Rings of Power; Dwarves
c. 100 Christianity
  The One God
  The Devil

Eru Ilúvatar
Melkor/Morgoth
c. 400 BC Classical era
  Atlantis
  Ring of Gyges
  Orpheus and Eurydice
  Oedipus
  Prometheus

Númenor
The One Ring
Beren and Lúthien
Túrin Turambar
Fëanor
c. 1000 BC Bronze to Iron Age
  Uffington White Horse
  Hallstatt culture

Rohan's horse-culture
Barrow-wight's treasure
c. 5000 BC Neolithic
  Pile Houses of Europe
  Barrows

Esgaroth (Lake-town)
Barrow-downs
150 mya Jurassic
  Pterosaurs

The Nazgûl's Fell beasts
Tolkien's artwork The Lord of the Rings Poetry in The Lord of the Rings Tolkien's languages John Howe (illustrator) Alan Lee (illustrator) Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson Diegetic music David Salo Howard Shore Sindarin commons:File:Construction of the Music for The Lord of the Rings films.svg
Construction of the music for The Lord of the Rings films, from Tolkien's work to Howard Shore's score, with clickable links.
Poetry in The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings Tolkien's artwork The Great War and Middle-earth Tolkien's maps Tolkien's languages Beowulf and Middle-earth Christianity in Middle-earth Philology commons:File:Tolkien's Influences.svg
Imagemap: Tolkien's influences in creating his Middle-earth books included his profession, philology, studying medieval literature; his religion, Christianity; mythology and archaeology; Old English poetry, especially Beowulf; and his own experience of childhood in the English countryside, and as a soldier in the First World War. Major inputs to his stories were his invented languages, and maps of Middle-earth. His books contained not just prose but poetry and artwork, with clickable links.
Silmaril Balrog Harad Sigelwara Land Sól (Germanic mythology) Hearth Sowilō seal commons:File:Tolkien's Sigelwara Etymologies.svg
Imagemap with clickable links. Tolkien's Sigelwara etymologies, leading to three strands in his writings on Middle-earth.


Celebrimbor Rings of Power Dwarf (Middle-earth) Nuada Airgetlám Nodens Lydney Park commons:File:Nodens Temple influence on Tolkien.svg
Imagemap with clickable links. Apparent influence of archaeological and philological work at Nodens' Temple on Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium


Silmaril Middle-earth Eärendil Eärendil Light commons:File:Crist I's influence on legendarium.svg
Imagemap with clickable links. Crist I's influence on Tolkien's legendarium

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  1. ^ Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Road to Middle-Earth (Third ed.). Grafton ( HarperCollins). pp. 388–398. ISBN  978-0-2611-0275-0.
  2. ^ Lee, Stuart D. (2020) A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien, Wiley: Philology 13-14 Christianity 446-460 Mythology 244-258 Old English 217-229 Modern literature 350-366 War 461-472 Invented languages 202-214 Art 487-472 Poetry 173-188
  3. ^ Shippey, Tom (2001). J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. HarperCollins. pp. 5–6. ISBN  978-0261-10401-3.