J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth saga, like its fans, spans generations. Since the 1950s, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy have been a rite of passage for readers, shared between kin, their ...

When J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892) passed away in 1973, he left an immense amount of unpublished writings — much of which consisted of his own personal Middle-earth mythology, known as the ...

She wanted to do an extensive atlas of Middle-earth, the fantasy prehistoric Earth that hobbits and Elves traversed in The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings. Two-and-a-half years later, The Atlas Of ...

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 ...

It’s easy to say you’d love to to really visit Middle-earth. It’s a wondrous place full of natural beauty and amazing architecture. But you know what else it has? Darkness. And orcs.