Everyone loves "The Lord of the Rings." They make up a quarter of the top 12 movies of all time on IMDb's top 250 movie list, for goodness' sake. "The Hobbit" films are less grand but still ...

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 ...

Even if you’re familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, much changes between the Second and Third Ages. The creatives behind The Rings of Power shared the map below to help us understand where men ...

J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by everything from the poem The ...

Life in Middle-earth began with music, distinct harmonies woven together by one being. J.R.R. Tolkien’s creation myth for Arda, Ainulindalë, opens The Silmarillion. The book explores Middle-earth’s ...

HarperCollins announced this brand-new version of The Silmarillion. It is the first fully illustrated edition of Tolkien’s 1977 book. Originally his son published The Silmarillion posthumously after ...

Haunted by the approach of another world war, the beloved fantasy author created a new story of Middle-earth that few people even knew about—until now The Radcliffe Camera, part of Oxford’s Bodleian ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Throughout the history of Middle-earth, as written by J. R. R. Tolkien, many dark forces have come and gone, rising from the shadows to combat the free people of the world of Arda, only to be ...