LoTR facts, stories and myths - One Ring RSS Feed

The best Lord of the Rings gift is officially licensed sterling silver jewellery — handcrafted in New Zealand, the country where Middle-earth was fi..

The Hunt for Gollum — December 17, 2027 At 86 years old, Sir Ian McKellen is returning to Middle-earth to play Gandalf one final time. At a fan event..

Bilbo Baggins — born September 22, TA 2890, Bag End, Hobbiton, the Shire — was the hobbit who found the One Ring. Son of Bungo Baggins and Belladonn..

Returning Cast Series — Kate Winslet Kate Winslet is confirmed as Marigol in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, releasing December 17, 2027...

This Day in Middle-earth April 28, TA 2941 Bilbo Baggins Leaves Bag End On April 28 in the year 2941 of the Third Age, a hobbit named Bilbo Baggin..

Tom Bombadil — called Iarwain Ben-adar by the Elves, Forn by the Dwarves, and Orald by Men, all meaning the same thing: Eldest, Oldest and Fatherles..

Gollum — born Sméagol, of the Stoor hobbit-kin — possessed the One Ring for 478 years. He found it at the bottom of the Gladden Fields in TA 2463, m..

Sauron — born Mairon, the Admirable — was not created evil. He was a Maia: a divine spirit of the same order as Gandalf, made before the world began..

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..

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 ..