Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

Foes of Middle-earth is an officially licensed cooperative game that uses artwork based on Peter Jackson's films ...

Earth's history. The Edain were an ancient race of humans that existed in the First Age, originating in the Far East, but eventually settling in Beleriand. The Edain were known to be some of the most ...

At Tank Encyclopedia, we often explore real armored vehicles - but sometimes the most fascinating machines are the strange, modified, or misunderstood ones. In this case, an M3 Medium Tank displayed ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series comprises some of the most influential fantasy tales ever told. There have been plenty of video game adaptations since the early 1980s, and in recent ...

Generations of readers have fallen in love with the fantasy novels of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, in part for the reprieve they offer from the dreary and mundane. But these tales offer something ...

When you are reading aloud to a 7-year-old, once you start using a particular voice for a character’s dialogue, you are stuck with that voice for the rest of the book. When that book is J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Dr. Drout is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author of “The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation.” When you are reading aloud to a 7-year-old, once you start using a ...

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An excerpt from ‘The War for Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945.’ Halfway through the Great War, on November 30, 1916, a small group of European ...

Louvre Director Quits, British Museum Gets a Tudor Bauble, and No Rainbow Flags for Stonewall California Puts $5 Billion at Risk over Gender Scheme in Schools The Unstable Frontier of Liberalism Stay ...