Her resulting book, “The Atlas of Middle-earth” (1981), wowed Tolkien fans and scholars with ... she enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, studying art, then, envisioning a career as a ...

When J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892) passed away in 1973, he left an immense amount of unpublished writings — much of which consisted of his own personal Middle-earth mythology, known as the ...

O nce upon a time there was a hugely popular card-drafting game called 7 Wonders. But drafting, where you pick a card to keep ...

And yet even Tolkien knew all too well that such victories are often fleeting — in Middle-earth as surely as in our own world. To some extent, that awareness hums throughout Tolkien’s epic.

Published last November for $105, the collection includes beautiful editions of all three volumes in Tolkien's Lord of the ...

Medieval scholar J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most popular works of speculative fiction from the twentieth century, and established the norms for modern fantasy ...

Fortunately there are plenty of ways to safely wander through J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world. You can read his books or watch Peter Jackson’s films. Or you can explore Middle-earth via the ...

But that was just the beginning. Aside from select maps making their way into revised editions of Christopher Tolkien’s revised The History Of Middle-earth, Fonstad also crafted maps for ...

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote several stories set in Middle-earth along with The Lord of the Rings, each taking place at different points in this fictional universe's timeline. Of course, with many of ...