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The events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place in the north-west of the continent of Middle-earth. Both quests begin in the Shire, travel east through the wilds of Eriador to Rivendell and then across the Misty Mountains, involve further travels in the lands of Rhovanion or Wilderland to the east of those mountains, and return ...
This category includes articles about locations in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings: The capital of Rohan: El Dorado Voltaire: Candide: A fabled city of gold located in South America: Elphistone, USA Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita: El-Ysa Terry Pratchett: Discworld: This is a village in Klatch whose inhabitants were killed when their well was poisoned. Ember Jeanne DuPrau: The City of Ember ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
J. R. R. Tolkien: The setting for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. See also Arda, of which Middle-earth is a part. The Hobbit: 1937: N P F R C G V Mid-World: Stephen King: The setting for King's The Dark Tower novel series "The Little Sisters of Eluria" 1998: N C V F Mushroom Kingdom: Shigeru Miyamoto: Primary setting of the Mario ...
The British author J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) and the names of fictional characters and places he invented for his legendarium have had a substantial impact on culture, and have become the namesakes of various things around and outside the world, including street names, mountains, companies, species of animals and plants, asteroids, and other notable objects.
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth is a 2020 non-fiction book by the journalist and Tolkien scholar John Garth.It describes the places that most likely inspired J. R. R. Tolkien to invent Middle-earth, as portrayed in his fantasy books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The Shire makes an appearance in both the 1977 The Hobbit [40] and the 1978 The Lord of the Rings animated films. [41] In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, the Shire appeared in both The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King. The Shire scenes were shot at a location near Matamata, New Zealand.