Hidden in an old copy of The Lord of the Rings, a U.K. rare book store has found a map of Middle-earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. The map, found in a book given to Blackwell's Rare Books ...

Middle-earth is just one part of a much larger world known as Arda, in which all of Tolkien's narratives are set. Arda was formed by the supreme god Eru Ilúvatar and was populated and shaped by ...