enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Tolkien's legendarium - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien's_legendarium

    The legendarium's origins reach back to 1914, when Tolkien began writing poems and story sketches, drawing maps, and inventing languages and names as a private project to create a mythology for England. The earliest story, "The Voyage of Earendel, the Evening Star", is from 1914; he revised and rewrote the legendarium stories for most of his ...

  3. Ancestry as guide to character in Tolkien's legendarium

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry_as_guide_to...

    In Tolkien's legendarium, ancestry provides a guide to character. The apparently genteel Hobbits of the Baggins family turn out to be worthy protagonists of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . Bilbo Baggins is seen from his family tree to be both a Baggins and an adventurous Took.

  4. Welcome to Middle-earth. Here's Your Guide to the LOTR ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/welcome-middle-earth-heres...

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy masterpiece spans three volumes, but don't stop there. Beyond The Lord of the Rings lies a whole world of mythmaking to explore.

  5. History of Arda - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Arda

    Tolkien meant Arda to be "our own green and solid Earth", seen here in the Baltistan mountains, "at some quite remote epoch in the past". [1]In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, [a] began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the fictional universe.

  6. Unfinished Tales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_Tales

    Navigable diagram of Tolkien's legendarium. Unfinished Tales stands outside Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume The History of Middle-earth (blue Roman numerals I..XII), though the tales relate to several parts of the legendarium (brown boxes), and variable amounts of editorial commentary are provided.

  7. Silmarils - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silmarils

    ' radiance of pure light ') [T 1] are three fictional brilliant jewels in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, made by the Elf Fëanor, capturing the pure light of the Two Trees of Valinor. The Silmarils play a central role in Tolkien's book The Silmarillion, which tells of the creation of Eä (the universe) and the beginning of Elves, Dwarves and Men.

  8. Two Trees of Valinor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Trees_of_Valinor

    In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Two Trees of Valinor are Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold Tree, which bring light to Valinor, a paradisiacal realm where angelic beings live. The Two Trees are of enormous stature, and exude dew that is a pure and magical light in liquid form.

  9. Tuor and Idril - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuor_and_Idril

    Tuor Eladar and Idril Celebrindal are fictional characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.They are the parents of Eärendil the Mariner and grandparents of Elrond Half-elven: through their progeny, they become the ancestors of the Númenóreans and of the King of the Reunited Kingdom Aragorn Elessar.