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

Last year, a map of Middle-earth, annotated by Tolkien himself, was unearthed in a copy of a book owned by illustrator Pauline Baynes. The map’s now been purchased by Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, who ...

The world-building of J.R.R. Tolkien is so rich and his descriptive powers so great that countless readers feel as though they almost inhabit his creations. But what of the places that Tolkien himself ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

2021 is a big deal year for the world of Middle-earth. Not only is it the 20th anniversary of the big screen Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the Amazon Prime series is likely going to premiere as well.

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 ...

In Middle-Earth, curses work. Distilled from the many versions written by J.R.R. Tolkien, his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, has produced "The Children of Hurin," a new version of one ...

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 ...

The Minecraft community continues to blow minds with its incredible builds. One such server is Minecraft Middle-earth, a project that has built J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth inside Minecraft, block ...