An illustrator's personal copy of "The Lord of the Rings" contains a map with handwritten notes from J.R.R. Tolkien himself. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist ...

Way before there was Westeros, there was Middle Earth, J.R.R. Tolkien’s huge magical world full of humans, hobbits, and elves. If you’ve read the Lord of the Rings trilogy or its prequel, The Hobbit, ...

In news that requires a bigger celebration than Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday, a map of Middle Earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself was recently discovered. The rare document was found in an ...

J.R.R. Tolkien was a man obsessed. And the Morgan Library & Museum’s “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth,” the most extensive public display of original Tolkien material in decades, demonstrates the ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

This is a pretty incredible find: a map of Middle Earth featuring annotations from its creator, J.R.R. Tolkien was recently discovered in a copy of a book owned by illustrator Pauline Baynes, which ...

A map of Middle-earth with annotations by J.R.R. Tolkien has been discovered in a copy of The Lord of the Rings. Seth Macy is a freelance writer who just wants to be your friend. Follow him on Twitter ...

A newly discovered map of Middle Earth featuring annotations from its creator, J.R.R. Tolkien has been unveiled this week after being found in a copy of a book owned by illustrator Pauline Baynes. The ...