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2. Illustrating Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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   J. R. R. Tolkien accompanied his Middle-earth fantasy writings with a wide variety of non-narrative materials, including paintings and drawings, calligraphy, and maps.In his lifetime, some of his artworks were included in his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; others were used on the covers of different editions of these books, and later on the cover of The Silmarillion.

3. Middle-earth peoples - Wikipedia

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   The Free Peoples of Middle-earth are the four races that never fell under the sway of the evil spirits Morgoth or Sauron: Elves, Men, Dwarves and Ents. Strictly speaking, among Men it was only the Men of the West who are Free People, particularly the descendants of the Dúnedain of the Isle of Númenor , as most Men of the East and South of ...

4. The Hobbit - Wikipedia

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   The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.

5. Dwarves in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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   The original editor of The Hobbit "corrected" Tolkien's plural "dwarves" to "dwarfs", as did the editor of the Puffin paperback edition. [T 23] According to Tolkien, the "real 'historical' plural" of "dwarf" is "dwarrows" or "dwerrows". [23] He described the word "dwarves" as "a piece of private bad grammar".

6. Death and immortality in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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   He gives as instances Sam Gamgee's reaction to the death of a warrior in Ithilien, and Bilbo's "moving" final farewell to Thorin Oakenshield as the Dwarf-leader dies. He argues, too, that a central event in The Hobbit is the death of the dragon Smaug , [ 5 ] [ T 3 ] while the novel sees the three trolls turned to stone, and the deaths of many ...

7. Balin (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia

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   A Dwarf, he is an important supporting character in The Hobbit, and is mentioned in The Fellowship of the Ring. As the Fellowship travel through the underground realm of Moria , they find Balin's tomb and the Dwarves' book of records, which tells how Balin founded a colony there, becoming Lord of Moria, and that the colony was overrun by orcs .

8. Tolkien's artwork - Wikipedia

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   The Hobbit had two maps; The Lord of the Rings had three, redrawn by his son Christopher Tolkien; The Silmarillion had two. These served multiple purposes, first as guides to the author, helping to ensure consistency in the narrative, and later to the reader through the often complex routes taken by his characters .

9. Category:Dwarves (folklore) - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... A category for Dwarves or Dwarf-like beings from the folklores of Germanic peoples.