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Aman and Middle-earth were separated from each other by the Great Sea Belegaer, analogous to the Atlantic Ocean. The western continent, Aman, was the home of the Valar, and the Elves called the Eldar. [T 1] [1] Initially, the western part of Middle-earth was the subcontinent Beleriand; it was engulfed by the ocean at the end of the First Age. [1]
Dol Guldur has been featured in many game adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, including the Iron Crown Enterprises portrayal, which contains scenarios and adventures for the Middle-earth Role Playing game. [27] In the strategy battle game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Dol Guldur appears as an iconic building.
The maps are organised first by period, with chapters on the First, Second, and Third Ages of Middle-earth. [10] A chapter covers regional maps, and a short chapter focuses on The Hobbit . [ 11 ] A major chapter follows the action in The Lord of the Rings . [ 12 ]
Heraldry of Middle-earth; Tolkien's Middle-earth family trees; Tolkien's maps; Poetry in The Lord of the Rings; Song of Eärendil; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil; The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late; Addiction to power in The Lord of the Rings; Character pairing in Lord of the Rings; Christianity in Middle-earth; Decline and fall in Middle-earth
T 5] Tolkien worked for many years on the book, using a hand-drawn map of the whole of the north-west of Middle-earth on squared (not graph) paper, each 2cm square representing 100 miles. The map had many annotations in pencil and a range of different inks added over the years, the older ones faded until almost illegible.
In the first film of Jackson's 2012–2014 The Hobbit film trilogy, the Wizard Radagast briefly encounters the Witch-king while investigating the forest fortress of Dol Guldur. [ 14 ] Péter Kristóf Makai, in A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien , writes that the 1976 board game Middle Earth provided the Witch-king with a choice of nine spells ...
In the latter days of the Third Age, this Kingdom under the Mountain holds one of the largest dwarvish treasure hoards in Middle-earth. [T 3] Dale, a town of Men built between the two southern spurs of Erebor, grew in harmony with the dwarves. [1] The Kingdom under the Mountain is founded by Thráin I the Old, who had discovered the Arkenstone ...
Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.