Early into the Third Age, he was tasked with weakening Sauron's enemies, which he did by destroying the northern king of Arnor, claiming the city Minas Morgul from Gondor, and killing King Eärnur, ...

Angmar was established by the Witch-King in the Third Age to destroy the kingdom of Arnor and serve as a second Mordor for Sauron. Angmar was eventually defeated by a combined force of Gondor, Arnor, ...

The Lord of the Rings is full of magical characters and objects, with the palantri not the least of them. These orbs have a ...

Lord of the Rings’ palantíri may seem like regular fantasy crystal balls, full of evil influence, but they weren’t always ...

SA 3320: Exiled from their sunken homeland, the humans of Númenor found the kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor in the vast region of Middle-earth known – at this point – as Eriador. SA 3430 ...

This gives him a similar origin to Aragorn, who is descended from the kings of Gondor and Arnor, but has been trying to avoid his destiny out of fear that he will fall to corruption like his ancestor, ...

Tragedy strikes Numenor in the latest episode of The Rings of Power and it may tie into Lord of the Rings lore we actually know very little about.

Taken from the elvish word Palantíri (meaning far-seeing), the Palantír that we see in Rings of Power is one of eight seeing stones (seven on Middle-earth). In the shortest, most reductive terms, it ...

Valandil’s heartbreaking death in Rings of Power Season 2 won’t be in vain, as he’ll live on via two kings in Middle-earth.