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 ...

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 ...

Last year, a map of Middle-earth, annotated by Tolkien himself ... Not just because of Tolkien’s real-world connections to the place, but because, according to the map, “Hobbiton is assumed ...

In his mind, reverse-engineering a fantasy world ... Tolkien’s more mathematically proficient graph-paper drafts), LOTR Project’s maps connect the landform dots between Middle-earth ...

Some of his more backed-out maps, especially earlier ones ... For instance, early in his creative process, J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Aimed at young readers, “The Hobbit” contained illustrations and maps drawn by Tolkien ... story before World War I, focusing on the early era of his fictional Middle earth setting.

His experiences on the Western Front would deeply influence his writing and the world of Middle Earth. When WWI broke out in 1914, Tolkien was still a student at Oxford University, pursuing a ...

Fonstad’s accompanying commentary considers real-world forces that ... and ancient history of Middle-earth. (Tolkien died in 1973.) She envisioned a suite of maps spanning the many millenniums ...

15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World ... Tolkien’s family and professional life, his friendships and his grueling effort to complete his saga about Middle-earth.