Gizmodo: Now Everyone Can See Tolkien’s Annotated Map of Middle-Earth in All Its Glory
Last year, a map of Middle-earth, annotated by Tolkien himself, was unearthed in a copy of a book owned by illustrator Pauline Baynes. The map’s now been purchased by Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, who ...
Now Everyone Can See Tolkien’s Annotated Map of Middle-Earth in All Its Glory
Texarkana Gazette: Karen Wynn Fonstad an Oklahoma native who mapped Tolkien's Middle-earth, other fantasy realms
Karen Wynn Fonstad an Oklahoma native who mapped Tolkien's Middle-earth, other fantasy realms
The New York Times: Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
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 locations without ...
J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). His writing continued to be published after his death, including The Silmarillion (1977) and The History of Middle-earth (1983–96).
Tolkien Biography Philologist, author, mythmaker and creator of "Middle Earth" Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, a brilliant philologist, and a self-described "hobbit," J.R.R. Tolkien created two of the best-loved stories of the 20th century, "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", recently made into a multiple award-winning movie by the director Peter Jackson for New Line ...
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns — love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride — giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was a close friend of C.S. Lewis, and a member of the Inklings, a literary discussion group to which both Lewis, Owen Barfield, and various other celebrated authors belonged. Tolkien created a legendarium, a fictional mythology about the remote past of Earth, of which Middle-earth in particular is the main stage.
CBS News: J.R.R. Tolkien's creation of Middle-earth, on display in New York City
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," wrote J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973). And so, the story about the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, and Middle-earth, began. The story behind that story is now the ...
Naija Gist - Latest: Tolkien's World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth
The world beloved by fans of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” will come alive again in the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings about Middle-earth. “The Nature of Middle-earth,” a ...
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 setting of ...
Smithsonian Magazine: Christopher Tolkien, Son of J.R.R. Tolkien and ‘First Scholar’ of Middle-Earth, Dies at 95
Christopher Tolkien, Son of J.R.R. Tolkien and ‘First Scholar’ of Middle-Earth, Dies at 95
Polygon: This Lord of the Rings Middle-earth map will help you navigate The Rings of Power
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is officially back for season 2… and bringing the Middle-earth map energy. With cartography baked right into the filmmaking, the Amazon series is true mapcore ...
This Lord of the Rings Middle-earth map will help you navigate The Rings of Power
The Spokesman-Review: The Lord of Middle Earth: Tolkien, a many of many talents, and books
The Lord of Middle Earth: Tolkien, a many of many talents, and books
As The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power dives further into the deeper mysteries of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythological tale, there is one figure who has not yet made his mark on Middle-earth (or has he ...