Middle-earth, Lord of the Rings and Stephen Colbert
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Every year on Tolkien Reading Day (March 25), fans of J.R.R. Tolkien return to Middle-earth, a world of courage, friendship, and the eternal battle between good and evil. While his books are timeless,
If you have ever wondered about the greater cosmology of Middle-earth, you aren't alone. Both The Lord of the Rings films and The Rings of Power television series have alluded to greater powers at work throughout J.R.R. Tolkien's impressive narrative ...
Before Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, the 1977 animated Hobbit captured Tolkien’s tone and storytelling better than most adaptations.
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In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – the same ones used to forecast Earth’s future warming scenarios – to simulate the climates of famous fantasy settings such as Tolkien’s Middle-earth,