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stories, Tolkien remarked, the North was the seat of the Devil and at the end of The Lord of the Rings it is more like the re-establishment of an effective...

ideas of the Gods and the creation of the world, the Elves and their coming to Valinor, the Two Trees and the Silmarils, the theft of Melko, and the Exile...

Silmarillion such as in The Quenta, which was the last complete chronicle of the War of the Jewels that Tolkien ever wrote; both the later works The Later Quenta...

is the second part of the Book of the Lost Tales of Elfinesse which Eriol the Mariner learned from the Elves of Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle in the western...

discovery, The Science of Middle Earth reveals the hidden meaning of the Ring’s corruption, why Hobbits have big feet, the origins of the Dwarves, the animals...

Phantastes, and The Wind in the Willows. W.H. Auden, in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring, calls The Hobbit "one of the best children's...

Ered Luin (the Blue Mountains) during the Years of the Trees, before the arrival of the Elves in Beleriand. The Dwarves of Belegost were the first to forge...

of the First Age. In works such as The Annals of Aman and The Grey Annals, Tolkien measured the First Age with the Years of the Trees (YT), or the Valian...

shepherds, Asked the fishermen and hunters, Asked the deaf, the dumb, the crippled, Asked the young, and asked the aged, Asked the rich, and asked the needy; Did...