Beren was a mortal Man from a royal house in Beleriand, an area to the west of Middle-earth in the First Age, much of which is under the sea by the time of The Lord of the Rings in the Third Age.

Elves, Dwarves, Men, and Hobbits all have distinct beliefs and fates regarding reincarnation after death in Middle-earth. The return of Gandalf the Grey as Gandalf the White is one of the ...

The First Age of Middle-earth ended after an event known as the War of Wrath, which saw the defeat of the Dark Lord Morgoth. Before his ascent as the Satan-like figure of Middle-earth, Morgoth was ...

Written Sindarin in the Third Age uses Tengwar, but the runes known as Cirth were originally developed for writing Sindarin. When the Dwarves of Middle-earth first learned Sindarin (which they ...

Interestingly, there used to be a lot more landmass in Middle-earth during the First Age compared to the Third. The Silmarillion sheds a lot of light on this subject. Originally, the northwestern ...

Born in the Years of the Trees, an era that predates even the First Age, Galadriel witnesses much of the history of Middle-earth during her lifetime. And although she wasn’t a legendary warrior ...

You may have heard a bit about the Second Age of Middle-earth recently ... The Fall of Númenor will bring together for the first time in one volume the events of the Second Age as written ...

Sauron was Morgoth’s servant during his war against the Elves in the First Age of Middle-earth. He ruled the fortress of Angband during Morgoth’s reign, a location he later escaped during the ...

The Rings of Power is set in what is known as the Second Age of Middle-earth, or the Age of Númenor ... all the way up until the first defeat of Sauron. Most movie fans will recognise where ...