LOTRem ipsum is a Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit-themed random text generator created by two web developer friends who like writing code.
It started out as a fun project, but as we poured more hours into the development, we quickly realized that there's a whole lot we can improve over existing lorem ipsum generator websites.
As coders we find random text generators useful for our work, but they lack a certain je ne sais quoi to effortlessly integrate into our work. So, we've implemented a handful of quality of life improvements to make using this tool for fellow web designers and developers as hassle-free as possible.
If you have any ideas about the generator or would like to report a bug to us, we kindly invite you to email us at hi@lotremipsum.com.
General
The generator is made up of the words of the 6 LotR & Hobbit movies' extended versions. These words are separated into 3 categories: regular words, proper nouns and actual quotes from the films, the latter two are hand-curated. We use a combination of these 3 dictionaries to generate texts for every occasion.
Technology-wise, extracting the words from the subtitle files was done in Python. The website itself and the random text generation was written in PHP. We have a bunch of Javascript functions to handle formatting and clipboard operations.
Features
Why we think our tool is better than the ones out there:
- No duplicate words in sentences. How annoying is that?
- Punctuation marks at the end of sentences are weighted random.
- Random number of words per sentence and sentences per paragraph.
- There's at least one proper noun per generated sentence.
- There's at least one quote per generated paragraph.
- Indented Copy to Clipboard functionality.
Generator Modes
Basic Mode
Basic mode allows you to generate your everyday random text. You have the option to include heading tags, lists and tables. You can toggle between Visual and HTML modes to include or omit tags.
Advanced Mode
Advanced Mode aims to remove the hassle of manually marking up generated text. It includes pretty much all the styleable inline and block-level HTML tags to speed up your development workflow. Advanced Mode outputs HTML code only.
You can select from different indentation styles to personalize the markup to your needs. More features soon!