a story Tolkien didn't finalize. Meanwhile, realms rose and fell in Arda until The Lord of the Rings' Third Age, making the ...

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” She used a grid system to index ...

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While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films and TV shows are closer than you might imagine. The first book in J R R ...

Despite J.R.R. Tolkien's world in The Lord of the Rings being so full of lore, there are still some mysteries that have yet ...

JRR Tolkien made a huge impact on fantasy writing with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings He drew the original maps of Middle-earth seen in The Lord of the Rings books released in the 1950s.

JRR Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin, which the author described as "the first real story" set in Middle-earth, is to be published as a stand-alone book for the first time. The book charts the story ...

Ever since 1954, the world of Middle-earth that J.R.R. Tolkien created has captured the ... To do this, players will need to capture tiles on the map to grow your territory. Certain tiles will ...