That’s because deep down, like most National Geographic devotees, I am a total map nerd. While standing on the marked Equator , I switched on my phone and got a Google Earth reading of 0° 0 ...

Map includes geographical pointers from Hobbit author and sheds light on creative process that spawned fantasy ... witches, camels, elephants, orcs, elves and hobbits. A map of Middle-earth, ...

It’s a virtual geological quest using an enhanced version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth from The Lord of the Rings, coming exactly 80 years after Tolkien’s introduction of Middle Earth to ...

In a 1954 letter to his friend and fellow author Naomi Mitchison, Tolkien wrote, “I wisely started [The Lord of the Rings] with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for ...

Thanks to six blockbuster movies from Peter Jackson, Middle-Earth is now one of the most recognizable fantasy landscapes ever, but it wasn’t always that way. The Lord of the Rings was first ...

For more map-based fun, check out The LOTR Project's interactive maps of Middle-earth in different eras, showing how the Rings of Power's geography lines up with the age of the other books and movies.

We’re on the internet, and we’ve chosen to hear writer Alex Acks’ argument for why J.R.R. Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth is a “geographical car wreck from which I can’t quite look away.” ...

As seen in LOTR: The Rings of Power, Valinor is directly west of Tolkien's Middle-earth world. Here's what's on the eastern side of the map.

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, ... But a part-time job illustrating maps for the university’s geography department kindled her ...