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Member: Michael Martinez
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Location: Texas
Member Since: Jul 27 '04
Homepage: My Web site
 
Favorite Websites: Google News
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Author of Visualizing Middle-earth, Parma Endorion, and Understanding Middle-earth.  more
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About m_martinez
Michael Martinez is the founder of the popular Xenite.Org network of science fiction and fantasy Web sites, including SF-FANDOM.COM, home to dozens of moderated forums. Michael also wrote Visualizing Middle-earth, Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth, and Understanding Middle-earth. Parma Endorion was selected by Yahoo! Internet Life as one of the Internet's most scholarly resources on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The eBook has been downloaded more than 500,000 times from Free-ebooks.net. Among other projects, Michael has written for Suite101 (on Hercules and Xena as well as about J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth), MERP.COM, Toy Vault, and Whoosh! He also founded the Hercules and Xena fan programming track and the Tolkien and Middle-earth fan programming track for DragonCon in Atlanta, GA. Michael's professional work as a computer programmer has taken him around the world. His technical papers and articles are widely read throughout the Business Basic proramming field.