LoTR facts, stories and myths - Lord of the Rings RSS Feed

Aragorn II Elessar — known as Strider in Bree, Thorongil in Gondor, and Estel in Rivendell — was the heir of Isildur and the rightful King of Gondor..

Arwen Undómiel — the Evenstar — was the daughter of Elrond Half-elven and Celebrían, granddaughter of Galadriel, and the most beautiful of the High ..

The One Ring — also called the Ruling Ring, the Master Ring, and Isildur's Bane — was forged by the Dark Lord Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom in t..

Galadriel — Nerwen, Artanis, Alatáriel, the Lady of the Golden Wood — is the oldest of the named figures still walking in Middle-earth during the ev..

Middle-earth is not a backdrop. It is a character — ancient, layered, and as carefully constructed as any person in the story. J.R.R. Tolkien spent ..

The Evenstar pendant — the silver star Arwen gives to Aragorn in Peter Jackson's films — is the most gifted piece of Lord of the Rings jewellery in ..

Nenya — the Ring of Water, the Ring of Adamant, the White Ring — was one of the Three Elven Rings made by Celebrimbor in Eregion without Sauron's di..

Hobbiton — the village at the heart of the Shire, home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, the place where the greatest adventure in Middle-earth history be..

The Rings of Power were nineteen rings made in Eregion in the Second Age of Middle-earth — seven for the Dwarf-lords, nine for the kings of Men, and..

J.R.R. Tolkien was a professional philologist — a scholar of language, its history, and its structure — who spent his career at Oxford studying Old ..