Lord of the Rings' most famous location, Middle-earth, was just one continent in the wider world, proving the depth of Tolkien's worldbuilding.

Even if you’re familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, much changes between the Second and Third Ages. The creatives behind The Rings of Power shared the map below to help us understand ...

For more map-based fun, check out The LOTR Project's interactive maps of Middle-earth in different eras, showing how the Rings of Power's geography lines up with the age of the other books and movies.

A set of zooming J.R.R. Tolkien maps will help you understand the sigil mystery and locations in LOTR: The Rings of Power, and where The Shire and Mordor fit in.

Now Google has created an interactive map of Middle-earth as its newest Chrome Experiment, which the company describes as "a showcase of web experiments written by the creative coding community ...

In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, the first to mass-produce Earth and star globes, devised a system for projecting the round Earth onto a flat sheet of paper.