Way before there was Westeros, there was Middle Earth, J.R.R. Tolkien’s huge magical world full of humans, hobbits, and elves. If you’ve read the Lord of the Rings trilogy or its prequel, The ...

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

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

An extremely rare map of Middle-earth annotated by “The Lord of the Rings” author JRR Tolkien is on sale in the U.K. for $92,138. The map is one of a number of works by celebrated illustrator ...

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.

The land of Middle-earth from The Lord of the Rings was larger than either J. R. R. Tolkien's novel or Peter Jackson's film adaptations showed. Maps of Middle-earth typically depicted only the ...

But what exactly happens in Middle-earth after Sauron's final defeat? Fortunately, J. R. R. Tolkien explored more of Middle-earth's future, providing an answer to how the world moved forward.

When J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892) passed away in 1973, he left an immense amount of unpublished writings — much of which consisted of his own personal Middle-earth mythology, known as the ...

The narrative across both games successfully blends a mélange of established lore with original content that all feels at home within the internal logic of Tolkien's fantasy world. Middle-earth's ...

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 ...