Whether it was Smaug forcing the Dwarves out of Erebor, Sauron turning Greenwood ... The reverse was far rarer in Middle-earth's history, but there were a few instances of The Lord of the Rings ...

Bilbo leaves the comforts of the Shire on a journey through Middle-earth to help the Dwarves reclaim their lost Kingdom of Erebor within the Lonely Mountain. Along the way, he is introduced to ...

LotRO’s Executive Producer Rob Ciccolini (Severlin) joined Community Manager Jerry Snook (Cordovan) for a livestream chock full of details and Q&A regarding the biggest news in Middle-earth of ...

Alice Jovanée (she/her) is a commerce writer, and she has been writing about gaming and tech since 2005. Prior to Polygon, she worked at publications such as The Verge. For the first time ever ...

She wanted to do an extensive atlas of Middle-earth, the fantasy prehistoric Earth that hobbits and Elves traversed in The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings. Two-and-a-half years later, The Atlas Of ...

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 ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...

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