Little Delvings in the Marsh, my new search tool for Tolkien scholars. With the aid of Google it indexes over 100 sites and pages, all those I can think of, via a Google custom search-engine. No wikis or fan-fiction, no Reddit, and no merchandising piffle such as ‘Lego Frodo’ etc. Very much in beta, but it will expand as I find or remember further sites.

Note that a Google custom search tends to work best with more sophisticated searches. Trying it with just one or two simple keywords may give lacklustre results. A custom search is also not a great tool for discovering “What’s new?” (though you can ‘sort by date’). More like “What’s old?”.

The hit-counts refer to the full Google Search. A custom engine can’t be bothered to re-calculate the hits for the sub-set of sites.

If the dumb drop-down auto-suggest annoys (as it will), block it in your uBlock Origin custom filters list, thus…

cse.google.com##.gsc-completion-container

And block the ads thus…

cse.google.com##.gsc-wrapper > .gsc-adBlock