Middle-earth

U.S. tech giant Amazon has announced it is developing an open-world style video game based on the classic "Lord of the Rings" saga.

J.R.R. Tolkien's stories of mythical creatures struggling with the mystical power of the rings have become a staple on the video game scene, most famously the tie-ins with Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy in the early 2000s.

Streaming giant Amazon has defended the racially diverse casting of its big budget series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," which some fans say distorts the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Amazon announced on Sept. 3 that its big budget series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, had marked the biggest premiere in the history of Prime Video with 25 million viewers.

The deal also includes “matching rights” in other Middle-earth-related literary works authorized by the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins

Amazon's "The Lord of the Rings" series has forged a name for itself.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" was announced Wednesday as the full title of the drama set to debut Sept. 2, with episodes to be released weekly on the streaming service.

New Zealand will once again be Middle-earth. Amazon begins filming the series "The Lord of the Rings". The new TV show will be based on Tolkien's novel.

Amazon today announced it has acquired the global television rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the celebrated fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, with a multi-season commitment. The upcoming Amazon Prime Original will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

New Zealand has one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world. It’s beauty was revealed to a global audience when director Peter Jackson decided to shoot one of the most successful movies in film history, ‘Lord of the Rings’ on location. Hobbits, Orcs and all the folk of middle earth were roaming around New Zealand.

Two of the planned 100 houses to be built by the Sivas Municipality in Central Anatolia inspired by the world of Middle Earth have been completed. 

A first edition of ?The Hobbit? accompanied by a handwritten note in Elvish by British author J.R.R. Tolkien was sold by Sotheby?s at auction on June 4 for 187,000 euros.

The book was a gift from the author and is dedicated to Miss Katherine (?Kitty?) Kilbride, one of his first students at Leeds University in the 1920s.