Google has brought J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth map to life to showcase the abilities of its Google Chrome browser and promote the new Hobbit film.

A set of zooming J.R.R. Tolkien maps will help you understand the sigil mystery and locations in LOTR: The Rings of Power, and where The Shire and Mordor fit in.

Even if you’re familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, much changes between the Second and Third Ages. The creatives behind The Rings of Power shared the map below to help us understand ...

Lord of the Rings' most famous location, Middle-earth, was just one continent in the wider world, proving the depth of Tolkien's worldbuilding.

In fact, Tolkien was so pleased with Baynes’ work on the Middle-Earth map that he later introduced her to Lewis, and she went on to illustrate the Narnia books as well. Close.

A map of Middle-earth covered in annotations by J. R. R. Tolkien which was discovered tucked away in an old copy of The Lord Of The Rings has been sold for £60,000. The incredible creation, which ...

Stars were extremely significant to the inhabitants of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel, ...

For more map-based fun, check out The LOTR Project's interactive maps of Middle-earth in different eras, showing how the Rings of Power's geography lines up with the age of the other books and movies.

In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, the first to mass-produce Earth and star globes, devised a system for projecting the round Earth onto a flat sheet of paper.