This Week in Middle-earth
Year 2941 – The Hobbit March 15 Gandalf meets Thorin and talks with him at the Prancing Pony in Bree Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 10 The Dawnless Day The […]
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This Week in Middle-earth
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 3 Théoden retreats to Helm’s Deep Battle of the Horn-burg begins Ents complete the destruction of Isengard March 4 Théoden and Gandalf set out from Helm’s […]
The City of Minas Tirith Built With 420,000 Matchsticks
I’m always fascinated by the amount of Tolkien-inspired fan art I find on the internet, but I had never seen an entire city built completely out of matchsticks, let alone thousands of matchsticks! The Iowa […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings February 25 The Company pass the Argonath and camp at Parth Galen First Battle of the Fords of Isen; Theodred son of Theoden slain February 26 Breaking […]
This Week in Middle-earth
15th July, 2941 [The Hobbit] Thorin and Company leave Beorn’s in the afternoon “That is all the advice I can give you. Beyond the edge of the forest I cannot help you much; you must […]
This Week in Middle-earth
1st July, 294 [The Hobbit] Elrond examines Gandalf and Thorin’s swords and reads the moon-letters Elrond knew all about runes of every kind. That day he looked at the swords they had brought from the […]
This Week in Middle-earth
8th May, 3019 Eomer and Eowyn depart for Rohan with the sons of Elrond And last of all Aragorn greeted Eomer of Rohan, and they embraced […]. And Eomer answered: “[…] But now I must […]
EXCLUSIVE Bonus Chapter from ‘Wisdom of the Shire’ – Part 2
This is the conclusion to the EXCLUSIVE Bonus Chapter: The Children of the Shire from The Wisdom of the Shire. Read the first section here. Tolkien obviously loved his children. But strangely enough there is only […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my leftover Halloween candy, but I have to admit that something like this never crossed my mind! You’ll want to visit the website for more […]
Celebrating Tolkien with Cakes!
Since Saturday, September 22 is Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ Birthday, what could be a better way to celebrate than by making a cake based on Middle-earth? Last year, our own Arwen Kester created a Hobbit […]
