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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...