Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is officially ...

“This is a map. Not of a place ... and The Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, the Tolkien Estate still has ownership. The heirs of Tolkien will be the ones to decide when and if ...

E ven if you’re familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, much changes between the Second and Third Ages. The creatives behind The Rings of Power shared the map below to help us understand ...

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 ...

Many see Middle-earth as J.R.R. Tolkien's world, but the truth is, it's just one small piece of a massive universe the Oxford ...

There are few clues regarding specific characters or storylines in the series, unless of course you're enough of a fan of Tolkien's ... Project's interactive maps of Middle-earth in different ...

In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made a long-shot cold call to J.R.R. Tolkien's American publisher with the hope of landing a dream assignment: to create an exhaustive atlas of Middle-earth, the ...

You see the story taking shape.” There is Tolkien’s well-worn map, depicting the geography of Middle-earth, from the hobbit’s home in the Shire—inspired by Tolkien’s own childhood in the ...

Chris, a former retail manager turned fantasy cartographer, has mapped Greater London in the distinctive cartographic style used by JRR Tolkien in the Lord of the Rings novels. The map is packed ...

With more than a million copies purchased in its first year. Tolkien’s son Christopher created the Middle-earth maps for the book. And many of his father’s drawings and painting for it have ...