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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 ..