J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), “The Shores of Faery, 10 May 1915,” watercolor, black ink, pencil (Tolkien Trust, MS,Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 22r., © The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ann Darcy is new to the world of gaming but has always been a fan of good storytelling. She is a huge lover of sci-fi and fantasy but is always looking for good stories of any genre to get lost in.

Jillian (she/her) is a writer for the Movies & TV section at GameRant. She's always loved writing and been a voracious consumer of all kinds of media, so writing for GameRant has been the perfect ...

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 ...

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 ...