The three The Lord Of The Rings films (2001 to 2003) and three The Hobbit films (2012 to 2014) were smash hits that took in a combined global box office of US$4 billion (S$5.5 billion), so it is safe to say more people have seen the movies than read J.R.R. Tolkien's books set in...
The three The Lord Of The Rings films and three The Hobbit films were smash hits that took in a combined global box office of US$4 billion , so it is safe to say more people have seen the movies than read J.R.R. Tolkien's books set in Middle-earth.is set during Middle-earth's Second Age, roughly 3,000 years before the Third Age events shown in the films.
Tolkien did not produce a book specifically about the Second Age, so the show's writers turned to information found in books such as the lore collection The Silmarillion . Mentions of that period's events are also scattered throughout The Lord Of The Rings novels, first published in 1955.In the west is Valinor, also known as the Undying Lands, where elves live blissful, immortal lives.
West of it is the continent of Middle-earth, the place where the action of the films took place. It is where the Misty Mountains and the Shire of the hobbits are located. Here also live elves, who hold kingdoms such as Lindon, ruled by Gil-galad . Dwarves, too, have their own lands, ruled by leaders such as Prince Durin and his wife Princess Disa .
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