There's so much depth and breadth to the lore of Arda and all it contains, thanks to iconic author and philologist J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ringsare the late scribe's seminal works, serving as the blueprint for high fantasy in the decades to follow. Tolkien's mythology for Middle-earth and beyond is so detailed that he created several languages for his characters, including the Elvish native tongues Quenya and Sindarin, as well as Sauron's Black Speech.