For more map-based fun, check out The LOTR Project's interactive maps of Middle-earth in different eras, showing how the Rings of Power's geography lines up with the age of the other books and movies.

In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, the first to mass-produce Earth and star globes, devised a system for projecting the round Earth onto a flat sheet of paper.

That’s because deep down, like most National Geographic devotees, I am a total map nerd. While standing on the marked Equator , I switched on my phone and got a Google Earth reading of 0° 0 ...

That's how the shop discovered the map of Middle-earth with handwritten notes from Tolkien himself. It appears to be in preparation for Baynes' work on a color map of Middle-earth that was first ...

Oxford's Bodleian Libraries publishes pictures of a Middle-earth map, from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, annotated by JRR Tolkien himself.

We’re on the internet, and we’ve chosen to hear writer Alex Acks’ argument for why J.R.R. Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth is a “geographical car wreck from which I can’t quite look away.” ...

Westeros has gone through a lot of changes over the centuries. Here's what it looked like afte the White Walkers invaded for the first time but before the coming of the Targaryens: ...

Gandalf the Grey, played by Ian McKellen, travels J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth in the film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." It turns out Tolkien was quite the climatologist when it came to ...

A map of the fictional Middle-earth annotated by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has gone on display. The map, which was recently bought by Oxford's Bodleian Library, was previously owned by ...