J.R.R. Tolkien’s creation myth for Arda, Ainulindalë, opens The Silmarillion. The book explores Middle-earth’s earliest days, long before Sauron and hobbits and the One Ring.

Like any masterfully-crafted fantasy setting, J.R.R. Tolkien's universe is brimming with layers of detail and complexity. Middle-earth serves as the primary continent of Arda (Earth).

Tolkien Acknowledged That Black People Exist in Arda, So Why Can’t Everyone Else? By Sam Sanders , host of Into It, the flagship culture podcast from Vulture Sept. 16, 2022 ...

Tolkien had it all in mind when he imagined the universe of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Just as the world had its conception, it would also have an end. The Dagor Dagorath would devastate Middle ...

Music in Arda and Afar As a singer, artistic director, and a musicologist, it is quite natural that I love most among all J. R. R. Tolkien’s writings Ainulindalë, the first part of The ...

The show is set in Arda, the world Tolkien invented, during its Second Age, several thousand years before the action of “The Lord of the Rings.” But Tolkien’s elves live for millennia, ...

It is fairly well known that J.R.R. Tolkien produced a huge amount of work set in Middle-earth and other parts of Arda (the name for his imaginary world as a whole), most of which was not ...