Matt Patches is an executive editor at Polygon. He has over 15 years of experience reporting on movies and TV, and reviewing pop culture. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is officially ...

Maps have always been an important part of Tolkien’s world ... High King Gil-galad rules over this westernmost point of Middle-earth. Lindon is the capital Galadriel returns to after her ...

Now that The Rings of Power has borne us back to the land of Lord of the Rings, you can see where you're going on an interactive map of Middle-earth ... of a fan of Tolkien's works to recognize ...

Middle-earth in Rings of Power differs from Jackson's films & spans four ages with complex mythology. Second Age introduces Nmenor, pivotal in shaping Third Age kingdoms like Gondor and Arnor.

First up in our tour of Middle-earth is Lindon. Lindon is an elven realm on ... an unknown character in the show who might have a connection to Tolkien's book. We don't know much about him beyond ...

The rights to The Lord of the Rings and all things Middle-earth are complicated ... interview with Guinchard about new Tolkien games here). “This is a map. Not of a place.

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 ...

With more than a million copies purchased in its first year. Tolkien’s son Christopher created the Middle-earth maps for the book. And many of his father’s drawings and painting for it have ...

Even if you’re familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, much changes between the Second and Third Ages. The creatives behind The Rings of Power shared the map below to help us understand ...