What he called his “feigned history” lives on its own terms ... What were Tolkien’s immediate inspirations for the Second Age of Middle-earth? The hobbits’ homeland, seen in one of ...

The history of Númenor is detailed ... brought the men of Númenor back to Middle-earth — the land their ancestors left behind at the dawn of the Second Age. Initially, the Númenóreans ...

Many battles have been fought in LOTR's Middle-earth, from Valar squabbles to the Fellowship's journey to Mount Doom.

At this point in time during the Second Age, Khazad-dûm is at the height ... but the Southlands — and their role in Middle-earth's history — are extremely important. Arondir (Ismael Cruz ...

the twelve-volume History of Middle-earth (1983–1996), the three great tales of the First Age, as well as several books on various non-Middle-earth mythologies, such as on the Nibelungenlied ...