The Hobbit, the earliest of Professor Tolkien’s selections from the Red Book, was first published ... Professor Tolkien labored with a formidable index listing the lineage of his characters ...

Of course, with many of these books being prequels to Frodo's story, it can sometimes be confusing to pinpoint a reading order. Those looking to get into Tolkien's Middle-earth works can choose ...

She used a grid system to index locations without latitude ... Her resulting book, “The Atlas of Middle-earth” (1981), wowed Tolkien fans and scholars with its exquisite level of topographic ...