More in Heaven and Earth

Very grateful to The Spectator for publishing an essay of mine on the moral ideas that define Tolkien's Middle Earth, and why accusatio...

I have an occasional series of posts that try to work out population estimates for periods of Tolkien's Middle Earth. I have the distant...

The Battle of Unnumbered Tears, or Nirneath Arnoediad , was the climactic and most detailed battle of Tolkien's First Age of Middle Ear...

The population of Numenor was derived from the Three tribes of the Edain that dwelt in Beleriand before Morgoth overran the continent after...

A kind correspondent (Glen Klugkist of South Africa) pointed out that in my articles on the populations of Middle Earth at the time of Lord ...

A very talented family (under the name Calamvi de Profundis) have produced a long version of  'The Misty Mountains Cold', the Dw...

A Poem. To be read fast.  (to the tune of Modern Major-General if you prefer) There was a merry passenger a messenger, an errander; ...

In this final article of my series on Populations of Middle Earth, I look at the lands and peoples described in The Hobbit. The first half...

In part 1 of this series I looked at the two great Kingdoms of men at the time of the Lord of the Rings, Gondor and Rohan. These are the co...

In previous posts in this series I looked at all the available evidence from Tolkien's many writings to calculate population estimates f...