From official rulebooks to community-created maps, Middle-earth offers a wealth of material for tabletop role-playing. Blending Tolkien’s lore with a ruleset that fits your group can result in ...
On July 29, 1954 — 70 years ago Monday — English author, linguist and university professor J.R.R. Tolkien published “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first of three volumes of a richly detailed world ...
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 ...
Middle-earth, the setting of The Lord of the Rings, is a territory within the larger planet of Arda, but what are the other ...
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), “The Shores of Faery, 10 May 1915,” watercolor, black ink, pencil (Tolkien Trust, MS,Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 22r., © The ...
NEW YORK — If you have ever opened a fantasy novel and found a map, you most likely have J.R.R. Tolkien to thank. He probably deserves some credit, too, for inspiring future fantasy writers to create ...