There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth writing about: a precious map of Middle-earth, annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, has been discovered hidden in the pages of an old copy of ...

sketches and diagrams detailing the minutiae of Middle-earth. Tolkien drew many early maps in order to get a feel for the world he was building in the 1930s through the 1950s, sketching ...

Middle-earth's map in The Rings of Power is quite different ... but I'm enjoying the experience overall, and it's such a joy ...

A map of Middle-earth, which to generations of fans remains the greatest fantasy world ever created, heavily annotated by JRR Tolkien, has been acquired by the Bodleian library in Oxford to add to ...

Meanwhile, realms rose and fell in Arda until The Lord of the Rings' Third Age, making the full map of Middle-earth intricate ...

Though he never actually crossed it, the Greek mathematician Pythagoras is sometimes credited with having first conceived of the Equator, calculating its location on the Earth’s sphere more than ...

In his mind, reverse-engineering a fantasy world “lands one in ... graph-paper drafts), LOTR Project’s maps connect the landform dots between Middle-earth’s past and distant past.

An illustrator's personal copy of "The Lord of the Rings" contains a map with handwritten notes from J.R.R. Tolkien himself. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...