The tragedy and scope of this war may be unrivaled in fantasy literature, so cataclysmic that it broke the world, leaving it ...

There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth writing about: a precious map of Middle-earth, annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, has been discovered hidden in the pages of an old copy of ...

Oxford’s a good home for this map. Not just because of Tolkien’s real-world connections to the place, but because, according to the map, “Hobbiton is assumed to be approx. at [the] latitude ...

Heavily annotated, the map demonstrates how painstakingly particular Tolkien was about the details of his imagined world, and offers new insight into the background of Middle Earth. “The map ...

A map of Middle-Earth annotated by ... The document offers glimpses into many of Tolkien’s observations on the fictional world, which hosts the action in “The Lord of the Rings” and ...

The map, found in a book given to Blackwell's Rare Books, has Tolkien commenting on numerous facets of the world of the popular book series. Most notably is that Hobbiton, seated within the ...

This is the illustrated edition, which includes hand-drawn color illustrations by Tolkien himself, detailed maps of Middle-Earth, deeper lore and world-building, and early histories of key ...

Now, the map has been acquired by Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, joining what is already the world’s foremost collection of Tolkien manuscripts and scholarship. “‘The creation of maps was ...

This is a pretty incredible find: a map ... Tolkien suggested various edits regarding the locations of cities and flora and fauna of the land. The notes also suggest that there were some real ...