In a sunlight-dappled room in UW-Madison’s Science Hall, between historical maps from around the planet, rests a world unlike ...

He said he hoped to one day create an entire "Tolkien-esque style" atlas. Mr Birse spent one month researching and drawing the map to honour Nottinghamshire's "rich history", he said.

As it should be. J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t just love maps — he ascribed the entire world-building success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to his cartographical exercises.

Last year, a map of Middle-earth, annotated by Tolkien himself, was unearthed in a copy of a book owned by illustrator Pauline Baynes. The map’s now been purchased by Oxford’s Bodleian ...

Hidden in an old copy of The Lord of the Rings, a U.K. rare book store has found a map of Middle-earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. The map, found in a book given to Blackwell's Rare Books ...

This popular edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel is on sale for its Prime Day price, and you don't need to be a ...

A specifically-cited source of inspiration for Danielson, for instance, is this map of Middle Earth from the Ballatine paperback edition of Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings.

The maps J.R.R. Tolkien drew to accompany his tales are their own form of story, sketching out the boundaries of his imagined worlds. But could our own, real cities be just as dramatic a fantasy ...

Posters of the fantasy maps are available for $23 each, and smaller 8.5-by-11-inch versions go for $10 each. Subscribe to the Design newsletter.

J.R.R. Tolkien's illustrations and maps for "The Hobbit," one of his best-loved works, are now collected in a new volume, "The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien." See a slideshow of images.