Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of ... line and painstakingly indexing any text from which she could infer geographic ...

If you're more of the free-willed type, you can trek off on your own and explore the whale map of Middle Earth. No signposts or text to educate you this time, but you can zoom in and out on the ...

Unlike the Two Trees, the Sun and Moon illuminated the entire planet, so Middle-earth no longer relied solely on stars for light. However, they remained in the sky, and on moonless nights ...

The Lord of the Rings has long been one of my favorite fantasy sagas, since long before the films were released, in no small part because ... Frodo, knowing his time in Middle-earth was drawing ...

The Lord of the Rings timeline is no easy beast to understand ... Join us on a trip through thousands of years of Middle-earth history. YT 1080: Another Valar called Melkor (later known as ...

Marc Burrows, a critic and comedian, sees it as ironic that some Middle-earth fans have no trouble accepting giant, walking tree people and fire-breathing dragons, but “darker skinned dwarves ar ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a series with an epic scope — and with that scope comes a massive ensemble cast and the expansive world of Middle-earth. If you're worried about ...

And one video game understands that better than anything else. Middle-earth: Shadow of War is the sequel to 2014’s breakout hit Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor which sends players to the high ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season two will take us back to Middle-earth on August 29 ... Arda from flat to round so that Men could no longer reach Valinor. During his time on ...