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

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JRR Tolkien had his paintings. And maps. And even a secret language. A new exhibition in New York brings together the life’s work that went into creating his famous "Middle Earth". Editor ...

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 ...