Her resulting book, “The Atlas of Middle-earth” (1981), wowed Tolkien fans and scholars with its exquisite level of topographic detail; the most recent paperback edition is in its 32nd printing.

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 ...

W hen J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892) passed away in 1973, he left an immense amount of unpublished writings — much of which consisted of his own personal Middle-earth mythology, known as the ...

Facts matter in fictionalized films about famous writers, but only as much as that word “fictionalized” can comfortably allow. In the cliché-prone realm of the biopic it’s hard enough to ...

"Tolkien" is one of those good movies that is best understood — both for its strengths and its weaknesses — when compared to other, better movies in its genre. A biopic of John Ronald Reuel ...

Botanist Walter Judd has created a book that tests the limits of The Lord of the Rings fandom. It's an examination of the many plants and trees that J.R.R. Tolkien used in his novels.

The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth. By John Garth . Princeton University Press, 2020. 208 pages, $29.95 (hardcover) The world-building of J.R.R. Tolkien is so rich ...

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth Through May 12 at the Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Manhattan; 212-685-0008, themorgan.org . The show will travel to the Bibliothèque nationale de ...

“The Nature of Middle-earth," a previously unseen collection of writings about Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media in the United States ...

Top image: “The Mumak of Harad” by Cor Blok. Tolkien’s Own Illustrations for The Hobbit. We may as well start with Tolkien himself, who provided the very first illustrations of Middle Earth ...

The books go ever on and on. Forty years after his death at 81, works by J.R.R. Tolkien continue to appear. The latest, “The Fall of Arthur,” lists nine works published during his lifetime ...