The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Movies, Art, Literature, Gaming 
The Official J. R. R. Tolkien Book Shop released the latest editions of The Lord of the Rings this week. These beautiful collector’s clothbound editions feature new cover designs and reproductions of all of Tolkien’s drawings and […]
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–” “Sir?” “–until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” To Kill a Mockingbird Cosplayers enjoy the unique […]
“We should look at green again”: Representations of Nature in Middle-earth to be published 2014 by Walking Tree Publishers The importance and the meaning behind the nature and the environment of Tolkien’s Middle-earth have been […]
Our weekly column “An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth” has been going strong for over a year now! Here’s how it works: Every week, our Middle-earth News reporters seek out Tolkien/Hobbit/LOTR goodness and tag their finds […]
Middle-earth News is proud to announce the winners of our “My Own Shire” photo contest! We had a huge response this year and would like to thank each and every person who submitted their beautiful […]
Have you ever sat down to your afternoon tea or an evening meal and felt as though something was missing? You look around: you have turned off the oven, you have a meal laid out […]
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing […]
Have you ever wished you could jump into a painting and join its inhabitants in their idyllic lives? For me, that feeling is never stronger than when I look at a painting of The Shire […]
Have you ever dreamed of building your own hobbit hole? Well, with Lynn Dean’s book ‘Home Sweet Hole: A Folio of Feasible Fantasy Floor Plans’, you might just be one step closer! You may recall […]
The Mythgard Institute was founded in 2011 as a new online academic center dedicated to promoting the study of imaginative literature and making academic resources more available to fantasy and science fiction fans around the […]
