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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 ...
E ven if you’re familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, much changes between the Second and Third Ages. The creatives behind The Rings of Power shared the map below to help us understand ...
Middle-earth is a continent on an Earth-like planet called Arda. At the western edge of the map is Valinor, the sacred homeland of the Elves and the place regarded as the final destination for ...
While the book famously has a hand drawn map of Middle-earth, it has now been brought to life and lets people take a tour of the fictional landscape from the air, as well as through a Hobbit’s eyes.
As the bizarre Catching Fire tie-ins have revealed, not all real-world movie promotions are entirely successful at capturing the spirit of the films they are promoting. Warner Bros. Pictures ...
Now Google has created an interactive map of Middle-earth as its newest Chrome Experiment, which the company describes as "a showcase of web experiments written by the creative coding community." ...
Tolkien relied on maps to write his books—and cared a lot about how his fans saw Middle-earth. The Tolkien Estate Limited 2016 “Not all those who wander are lost,” wrote J.R.R. Tolkien in ...
The Shire, home of the Hobbits, is located in the north-western part of Middle-earth on the map. It's where Frodo and Bilbo Baggins started both of their epic adventures. To the west of the Misty ...
An map of Middle-earth that was annotated by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has been bought by Oxford's Bodleian Libraries A map of the fictional Middle-earth that was annotated by Lord of ...