For thousands of years the Dwarves of the Longbeard Clan, better known as Durin’s Folk, mined and tunneled beneath the Misty Mountains from their ancestral home Khazad Dum. Yet in the Third Age during the reign of King Durin VI,…
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Hello, welcome to the first of our blogs on the making of “The Hobbit.” It’s amazing to be back here again. This is Bag End exactly as it was in “The Lord of the Rings.” It was actually built in…
The second son of Fingolfin, Turgon the Wise initially stood with the sons of Finarfin, in Aman, who opposed following his uncle Feanor’s plan for the Noldor Elves to leave the undying lands to pursue Morgoth and the stolen Silmaril…
In the years before the rising of the Sun, when the world was illuminated by the two trees of Valinor and the Stars in the sky, the Eldar Elves made their great journey west, bound for the paradise of the…
In the beginning, there was Eru the creator, who in the world of Arda, was called Iluvatar, bringing forth the Timeless Halls and great void, before forming living beings known as the Ainur, kindled by the flame imperishable. Melkor, greatest…
With the rising of the sun and awakening of men in the lands of Hildorien, the First Age dawned upon the Lands of Middle-Earth. Yet as human settlements began to spread throughout the east, they eventually came to the attention…
Following the victory of the Valar against Morgoth in the war of wrath at the end of the first age, the world was forever changed, with the lands of Beleriand submerged beneath the waves while the island of Elenna was…
With the rising of the sun and awakening of men in the lands of Hildorien, the First Age dawned upon the Lands of Middle-Earth. Yet as human settlements began to spread throughout the east, they eventually came to the attention…
For thousands of years, the Dark Lords Morgoth and Sauron led armies of creatures they twisted and corrupted as well as those they recruited through coercion, lies and treachery. Although opposition to their conquest of Middle Earth arose amongst the…
♪♪ [epic music] [indistinct arguing] ♪♪ I will take it! I will take the ring to Mordor. [dramatic music begins] Though I do not know the way. I will help you bear this burden, Frodo Baggins, so long as it…