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 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings universe is filled with beauty and comfort, but the dark parts of the world are also ...

this part-time cartographer and Lord Of The Rings obsessive made a cold call to J.R.R. Tolkien’s publisher. She wanted to do an extensive atlas of Middle-earth, the fantasy prehistoric Earth ...

When J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892) passed away in 1973, he left an immense amount of unpublished writings — much of which consisted of his own personal Middle-earth mythology, known as the ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth saga, like its fans, spans generations. Since the 1950s, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ...