There are a few places in Tolkien's legendarium we know for sure exist. There's Arda, which is the Earth itself that largely makes up the Seen World, and then there's the Unseen World, which deals ...

Many of Tolkien's Middle-earth denizens have extremely lengthy lives - and then there are Elves. How long do these "immortal" ...

Tolkien ends with the author, now a married professor with children, writing the iconic first line of The Hobbit, the first book he ever published about the world of Arda (upon which Middle-earth ...

The Tolkien Professor, Cory Olsen, ... So Arda, again, is the whole world, it's the solar system. And the entirety of the world has been. tainted essentially by Melkor's malice.

Stephen Colbert’s love of J.R.R. Tolkien is well-documented: ... After all, he’s a Maia who’s been in Arda since Ilúvatar cried “Eä,” as Colbert so astutely points out.* ...