Meanwhile, realms rose and fell in Arda until The Lord of the Rings' Third Age, making the full map of Middle-earth intricate ...

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

When J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892) passed away in 1973, he left an immense amount of unpublished writings — much of which consisted of his own personal Middle-earth mythology, known as the ...