Hacker News with Generative AI: J.R.R. Tolkien

Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien's Middle-Earth (nytimes.com)
In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made a long shot cold call to J.R.R. Tolkien’s American publisher with the hope of landing a dream assignment: to create an exhaustive atlas of Middle-earth, the setting of the author’s widely popular “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
What Were the Powers of the Great Rings? (xenite.org)
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote very little about the specific powers of the Great Rings, but he did provide some details. And yet fans disagree about the actual powers of the Rings. Here is what we know.