Shire (Middle-earth) — For other uses, see Shire (disambiguation). The Shire Place from J. R. R. Tolkien s legendarium The fields of the Shire in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy Other names … Wikipedia
The Lord of the Rings — This article is about the novel. For other uses, see The Lord of the Rings (disambiguation). The Lord of the Rings Tolkien s own cover designs for the three volumes Volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring … Wikipedia
Red Book of Westmarch — The Red Book of Westmarch (sometimes Red Book of the Periannath , and The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings , also known as the Thain s Book after its principal version) is a fictional manuscript written by hobbits, a conceit of author J. R. R.… … Wikipedia
Warden of Westmarch — The hereditary title of the Fairbairns of the Tower Hills. The Westmarch, the land between the Tower Hills and the Far Downs, was added to the Shire some years after the War of the Ring. Its first Warden, appointed by Thain Peregrin, was… … J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary
Translations of The Lord of the Rings — The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien appeared 1954–55 in the original English. It has since been translated, with various degrees of success, into dozens of other languages. Tolkien, an expert in Germanic philology, scrutinized those that… … Wikipedia
War of the Ring — Infobox Me battle date = 3018 − 3019 Third Age place = Northwestern Middle earth result= Free peoples victory; destruction of Sauron; Arnor and Gondor reunited books = The Lord of the Rings , Unfinished Tales participants = See combatant1 = Free… … Wikipedia
Elanor Gardner — Called Elanor the Fair, the eldest child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton; she married Fastred of Greenholm and they removed to the Westmarch of the Shire. Her son Elfstan was the founder of the Fairbairn family … J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary
Fourth Age — The centuries after the Downfall of Barad dûr. The last of the four ages chronicled by Tolkien, and the one about which least is known (including its length). The Fourth Age was held to have begun with the passing of the Ring bearers over… … J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary
Far Downs — The western borderland of the Shire. The downlands that marked the western borders of the Shire, forty leagues (120 miles) west from the Brandywine Bridge. Of their geography almost nothing is known, except that the town of Greenholm seems… … J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary
Middle-earth calendar — refers to one of the systems of keeping time in the fictional Middle earth devised by J. R. R. Tolkien and described in The Lord of the Rings. Because Middle earth was intended to be our world in the distant past, the basic structure of the… … Wikipedia