Meanwhile, realms rose and fell in Arda until The Lord of the Rings' Third Age, making the full map of Middle-earth intricate ...

The story is hung on the tension between a supportive goodness that sometimes seems inherent in Middle-earth and the danger ... and Boethius explained how fate and free will coexist.

If you have ever wondered about the greater cosmology of Middle-earth, you aren't alone. Both The Lord of the Rings films and The Rings of Power television series have alluded to greater powers at ...