a story Tolkien didn't finalize. Meanwhile, realms rose and fell in Arda until The Lord of the Rings' Third Age, making the ...

Many battles have been fought in LOTR's Middle-earth, from Valar squabbles to the Fellowship's journey to Mount Doom.

What were Tolkien’s immediate inspirations for the Second Age of Middle-earth? The hobbits’ homeland, seen in one of Tolkien’s own illustrations, was based on his rural childhood village as ...

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