The departure of the Elves from Middle-earth haunted Tolkien's imagination, but it has also fascinated many other writers before and since. After Kipling and Tolkien, the twin pivots in recent ...

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There are a lot of old beings in Middle-earth. For instance, a while back, I laid out the case for why Tom Bombadil (and not Treebeard) is the oldest creature in Middle-earth. Unlike the leader of the ...

J.R.R. Tolkein put a lot of detail into the world of Lord of the Rings, and one avid fan has cataloged all of those details to produce lots of charts, like this one of Middle Earth's population by ...