Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings - A great Fantasy novel by Tolkien! Following Bilbos 111th birthday, Frodo Baggins and his companion Sam Gamgee, set off along the same East Road down which Bilbo the Hobbit had accompanied Thorin Oakenshield and his dwarves all those many years ago. Much danger and many strange encounters await them: Gandalf, Tom Bombadil, the Black Riders, Strider, the Council of Elrond and the grass-clad slopes of Lórien. Audio books by J.R.R. Tolkien

10 Best Places to Live in Middle Earth
A Real Estate Guide for the Free Peoples
Middle-earth has it all: sleepy green farmlands, rugged mountains, spider-infested forests, volcanic deserts and seven-star cities with classic architecture. There's so many fabulous places to live in the Western Lands. So, how do you choose your dream location in Middle-earth? This handy guide will help you narrow down your search! P.S. Act now! For a limited time only, Ennorath Enterprises will wave all closing costs for properties in the Mines of Moria! Hobbiton, In the Shire Photo Cred...

The Lord of the Facebook and other LOTR Parodies
A Parody of Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a great and wordy book - with some very memorable characters. Now, just imagine what kind of updates they'd been writing for their Facebook accounts, if they'd had those...? Imagine no more. It has been written for you. This page began as a way to collect the Lord of the Facebook parody cast, Lord of the Rings Fanpages, Lord of the Facebook lenses and Lord of the Facebook groups - but has since started sprouting links to other facebook status parodies and the better...

The BBC Lord of the Rings Radio Dramatization
A Masterpiece Worthy of Tolkien's Masterpiece
Millions have been captivated by JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the magnificent sequel to The Hobbit. Animators, movie directors, and sound studios have attempted to bring Tolkien's work to life, some more or less successfully. Peter Jackson's recent films were a smashing success, showcasing the latest special effects. Peter Jackson acknowledges a debt to one little-known 13-hour radio play dramatized by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell for the BBC in 1981. That production lacks the sp...

Lord of the Rings: The True Ending
The Lost Epilogue of Return of the King
In all of Christopher Tolkien's labors to edit and publish his father's unpublished writings, one of the unsung jewels is the original ending of The Lord of the Rings. Perhaps I should not call it the "true" ending, since J.R.R. Tolkien was continually rewriting up until his publisher cried "enough!" and seized the manuscripts from his hands. Nor would I have the gall to quibble with the published version, Sam Gamgee's simple yet eloquent, "Well, I'm back." He sums up so much in those three ...

Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter
Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, which is more entertaining?
With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows hitting the movie theaters later is 2010 there's no doubt that J K Rowling will go down as one of today's classic writers. Her books are very well written and with multi-million sales for each book, the series is perhaps the most read series of all time (aside from the Bible). However, true fantasy fans will argue that while the Harry Potter series is fun and exciting, it really does not compare to the grandfather of them all: J R R Tolkien's Lord of...

The Two Notifications
The Lord of the Facebook: A Facebook Parody of Lord of the Rings - Part 2
LOTR's The Two Towers, told through the characters' facebook accounts First Published: 09-10-09 on Fanfiction.Net This is the second part of a parody of Lord of the Rings - covering the Two Towers. It has been retold through the narrow window of online interaction - the facebook status updates of the characters.... And it is funny. For links to the Facebook fanpages and to read part one - The Fellowship of the Facebook - then you should go The Lord of the Facebook trilogy What if the Lord o...

Elrond and Elros: The Star Twins
"Gwann Gl: The Star Twins"
Gwanûn Gîl is an award-winning short fanfiction story about Elrond and Elros, Half-elven twins from the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Following the story is a more complete biography of them based on Tolkien's writings about Middle-earth, plus links to other webpages with portraits or fanfiction about them. Gwanûn Gîl was written for a short story contest on The Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza in which we were challenged to write ten posts of 1000-5000 words each, no more...

Do Tolkien's Elves Have Pointy Ears?
Elf Ears (and Hobbit Ears) in Tolkien's Stories
Did Tolkien's Elves really have pointed ears, or was that made up for Peter Jackson's films, based on popular depictions of elves and fairies that include things like wings and pixie dust? The Lord of the Rings never describes Elf-ears. But there's good reason to think the answer is yes. Here's why. Note: This is one of many Lord of the Rings resource pages by Tinw, a member of the lore forums of The Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza. For casual or in-depth discussions of Middle-earth, please...

Ages of Lord of the Rings Characters
How Old Is Bilbo? Frodo? Aragorn? Etc?
The Lord of the Rings appendices give us tons of information, including the ages of most of the characters. But it's a chore sifting through all that information, correlating dates in The Tale of Years, family trees and so on. So here's a page with the ages of all the characters in The Lord of the Rings and in The Hobbit, which took place 77-78 years earlier. Left: "Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves," watercolor by J.R.R. Tolkien found in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. Mos...