The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is streaming on Amazon Prime. Created by Patrick McKay and J.D. Pyne, the series focuses on significant events of the Second Age of Middle Earth, a part that remains largely unexplored in the history of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world that one can read about mainly in the appendices of the The Lord of the Ring trilogy.

Tolkiens’s Middle Earth is one of the most celebrated fictional worlds in popular culture. Tolkien has elaborated extensively on the Middle-Earth’s language, culture, history, and genealogy in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. 

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Middle Earth is a human-inhabited world, located at the center of the Earth, in the imagined mythological past of Tolkien. Tolkien’s most popular works like The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in the Middle Earth. 

Middle Earth, which is a part of an imagined past of the Earth, is the main continent of Earth (Arda). This ends with his Third Age, which is around 6,000 years ago. The primary setting of Tolkien’s tales of the Middle Earth is usually the north-western part of the continent. This part of the Middle Earth suggests similarities with Europe – the north-western part of the Old World, surrounded by the shire areas, but specially the West Midlands with the town of Hobbiton at its center, that lies at the same latitude with Oxford. 

Toklien had prepared a number of maps of the Middle Earth.
Some of the maps were published in his lifetime. The books where his main maps
were published are – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and
Unfinished Tales. Tolkien had insisted that the maps should be added to the
books, even though it required added expenditure. This was basically to ensure
that the readers do not face difficulty in understanding the geography of the
books. The most definitive map was published in The Lord of the Rings. 

One might see certain new developments in the map in The
Rings of Power.