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Gandalf — known to the Elves as Mithrandir, the Grey Pilgrim — was not a human wizard who had learned magic. He was Olórin, a Maia: an angelic spiri..

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 barrel escape from the Woodland Realm is one of the most inventive sequences in The Hobbit — a daring plan hatched by a burglar with a stolen se..

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 ..