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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892) passed away in 1973, he left an immense amount of unpublished writings — much of which consisted of his own personal Middle-earth mythology, known as the ...

The Middle-earth saga's first attempt at anime, The War of the Rohirrim also put a female protagonist in the lead role, an ...