It introduces many iconic and peculiar Middle-earth beings, like the Ents and Tom Bombadil (Rory Kinnear), but none is as frightful and dangerous as the Barrow-wights. These are the undead beings ...

Setting of the sun often signals a time to rest, recharge, or reflect. But what if the sun remained a constant presence, ...

Despite their systematic efforts, Frieman and her team nearly missed their best discovery, a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age barrow. They almost skipped over the trove not once, but twice during surveys in ...

Here is every one of Middle-earth’s creatures we’ve met so far ... Jump to: Hill-Trolls // Shelob // Great Eagles // The Undead Barrow-Wights // Old Man Ironwood // Mordor Mud Serpent Nothing ...

The sun rose and set in Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, for the last time for ... place each winter because of the tilt of the Earth’s axis. “This tilt makes it so that none ...

Meteorologists and astronomers call the lengthy bright stretch there “polar day.” It’s the opposite of “polar night,” or the months of darkness that befall polar regions during winter. Between ...