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 ...

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 ...

There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth writing about: a precious map of Middle-earth, annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, has been discovered hidden in the pages of an old copy of ...

Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is officially ...

Many see Middle-earth as J.R.R. Tolkien's world, but the truth is, it's just one small piece of a massive universe the Oxford ...

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” She used a grid system to index ...

Now that The Rings of Power has borne us back to the land of Lord of the Rings, you can see where you're going on an interactive map of Middle-earth ... of a fan of Tolkien's works to recognize ...

As The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power dives further into the deeper mysteries of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythological tale, there is one figure who has not yet made his mark on Middle-earth (or ...

With more than a million copies purchased in its first year. Tolkien’s son Christopher created the Middle-earth maps for the book. And many of his father’s drawings and painting for it have ...