Middle-Earth Envisioned: The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings: on Screen, on Stage, and Beyond

Brian J. Robb

The painstakingly crafted world that J.R.R. Tolkien created for The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion is so vivid that it's easy to briefly imagine Middle-earth as a real place-even Tolkien himself had said it existed somewhere on Earth. From the languages spoken and the creatures that...