Google has brought J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth map to life to showcase the abilities of its Google Chrome browser and promote the new Hobbit film.

And back in 2019, Amazon tweeted an image of a Middle-earth map with the caption "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky." Amazon then provided a link to the interactive map.

Heavily annotated, the map demonstrates how painstakingly particular Tolkien was about the details of his imagined world, and offers new insight into the background of Middle Earth.

As seen in LOTR: The Rings of Power, Valinor is directly west of Tolkien's Middle-earth world. Here's what's on the eastern side of the map.

A map of Middle-Earth released by Amazon points to the setting for their "Lord of the Rings" series. Amazon Crucially, the Middle-Earth map affiliated with the Amazon adaptation depicts a location ...

Not only does the map provide a visual reference for Tolkien’s Middle Earth, users can also click on specific locations (including Trollshaw Forrest, Rivendell, and Dol Guldur) to reveal bonus ...

The map is on display, shown framed in this tweet from Blackwell, at Blackwell's shop in Oxford, where it is reportedly up for sale for £60,000 (about $92,200, AU$127,000).

Radagast the Brown, one of the wizards from Tolkien's Middle Earth, is the scientific paper's author. The paper itself is written in a way that anyone, climate background or not, can understand.

The map was discovered in a copy of The Lord of the Rings owned by illustrator Pauline Bayes, who used it as reference for her poster of Middle-earth. Tolkien made sure to give her everything she ...

A colored map of Middle-Earth, which was annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien, was found loose inside an old book that was handed to a bookshop in Oxford. The rare map is currently on sale for £60,000 or ...