J.R.R. Tolkien was a man obsessed. And the Morgan Library & Museum’s “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth,” the most extensive public display of original Tolkien material in decades, demonstrates the ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings has long provided a safe space for fans of orcs, poem-songs, and fantasy cartography to come together in shared appreciation of their mutual loves. Now, we can ...

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," wrote J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973). And so, the story about the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, and Middle-earth, began. The story behind that story is now the ...

NEW YORK — If you have ever opened a fantasy novel and found a map, you most likely have J.R.R. Tolkien to thank. He probably deserves some credit, too, for inspiring future fantasy writers to create ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It’s difficult to imagine a world without The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien’s sprawling magnum opus ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s annotations on a recently discovered map reveal that Hobbiton was located at the approximate latitude of Oxford. During the next few months, visitors to “Tolkien: Maker of ...

Hidden in an old copy of The Lord of the Rings, a U.K. rare book store has found a map of Middle-earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. The map, found in a book given to Blackwell's Rare Books, ...

Amazon has released one map to rule them all. The official Twitter account for Prime Video’s upcoming “The Lord of the Rings” TV series shared a link to a map of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional ...

In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made a long-shot cold call to J.R.R. Tolkien's American publisher with the hope of landing a dream assignment: to create an exhaustive atlas of Middle-earth, the setting of ...

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