The Lord of The Rings has been a massive fantasy franchise ever since its publication in 1954. Part of the draw for readers is the vast world of Middle-earth described in the novels. Each area of this ...

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 locations without ...

Blended image showing Frodo Baggins and a map of Middle-earth with question marks on the background Custom Image by Federico Napoli With J.R.R. Tolkien's high-fantasy world of Middle-earth being so ...