The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is officially back for season 2… and bringing the Middle-earth map energy. With cartography baked right into the filmmaking, the Amazon series is true mapcore ...

A map of the fictional Middle-earth annotated by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has gone on display. The map, which was recently bought by Oxford's Bodleian Library, was previously owned by ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The island kingdom that sits on the Sundering Seas between Valar and Middle-earth, Númenor was ...

NEW YORK — If you have ever opened a fantasy novel and found a map, you most likely have J.R.R. Tolkien to thank. He probably deserves some credit, too, for inspiring future fantasy writers to create ...

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” She used a grid system to index locations without ...

When movie fans look at the Lord of the Rings franchise, it is easy to think of the One Ring as the most powerful treasure, but fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels know that is not true. That ring isn't ...

On July 29, 1954 — 70 years ago Monday — English author, linguist and university professor J.R.R. Tolkien published “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first of three volumes of a richly detailed world ...

In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made a long-shot cold call to J.R.R. Tolkien's American publisher with the hope of landing a dream assignment: to create an exhaustive atlas of Middle-earth, the setting of ...

Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being "useless," but The Lord of the Rings, one of ...

As The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power dives further into the deeper mysteries of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythological tale, there is one figure who has not yet made his mark on Middle-earth (or has he ...