While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films and TV shows are closer than you might imagine. The first book in J R R ...

Nearly 400 miles from where Hurricane Helene made landfall, the North Carolina mountain hamlet of Chimney Rock Village has ...

The local landowning family near Stonyhurst, meanwhile, were called the Shireburns – and the similarly named River Shirebourne appears in Tolkien's geography of Middle-earth. Tolkien's maps ...

Tales of the Shire follows a player-created hobbit as they relocate from the town of Bree to Bywater, an unincorporated hobbit village within the Shire, a region of Middle-earth predominantly ...

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The ancient artifact, discovered in the Middle East ... the cuneiform on its backside and above the map diagram describing the creation of the Earth and what its writer believed existed beyond ...

After two full seasons of speculation ... a group of five spirits sent to aid the people of Middle-earth against Sauron. These include the beings who would one day become known as Saruman the ...

Prior research has shown that many asteroids fall into partial or full ... circle the Earth one time, taking 53 days, starting at the end of this month and then leaving near the middle of November.

The images were combined to form the record-breaking map, which covers an area of the sky equivalent to 8,600 full moons (as seen from Earth). For context, it contains ten times more objects than ...

The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making - heated and thrust upward from ...

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...