Middle-earth Themes
Twenty-six VS Code color themes drawn from thirteen realms of Middle-earth —
each with a dark and a light mode. From the cozy green of the Shire to the
ember glow of Mordor, pick the realm that suits your mood.
| Realm |
Mood |
Signature colors |
| The Shire |
Cozy hobbit-hole |
leaf green, candlelight amber, terracotta, parchment |
| The Grey Havens |
Sea-mist & departure |
sea-foam teal, dawn rose, lamp gold, silver-blue |
| Rivendell |
Misty elven valley |
blue-slate, autumn gold, twilight lavender, copper |
| Moria |
Cold dwarven deep |
mithril silver, steel blue, gold vein, black stone |
| Lothlórien |
The Golden Wood |
luminous gold, mallorn green, silver, golden cream |
| Fangorn |
Ancient dim forest |
lichen green, bark amber, mushroom tan, mossy parchment |
| Mirkwood |
Spider-shadow & murk |
murky green, venom purple, sickly chartreuse, shadow violet |
| Erebor |
Dwarven treasure hall |
dragon gold, ruby/garnet, bronze, warm stone |
| Rohan |
Windswept golden hall |
wheat-gold, field green, banner red, dark timber |
| Isengard |
Industrial pits |
furnace orange, iron grey, pewter, machine black |
| Minas Tirith |
The White City |
white stone, steel blue, crown gold, garnet (sable & silver chrome) |
| Mordor |
Ashen waste |
sulfur bronze, lava orange, ember red, dead-grass, ash |
| Barad-dûr |
The Dark Tower |
charcoal, ash-grey, blood red, ember (light = "Ashlands" grey & rust) |
Each theme styles the full workbench — editor, sidebar, tabs, terminal, git
gutters, bracket pairs, status bar — plus TextMate and semantic syntax tokens.
Install
- Open the Extensions view in VS Code (
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + X).
- Search for Middle-earth Themes and click Install.
- Open the theme picker with
Cmd/Ctrl + K then Cmd/Ctrl + T
(or Command Palette → Preferences: Color Theme).
- All twenty-six themes appear grouped together — pick one.
Prefer the command line?
code --install-extension brycerichards.middle-earth-themes
Switching themes
Use Cmd/Ctrl + K Cmd/Ctrl + T at any time to preview themes — arrow through
the list and the editor updates live, so you can wander from Rivendell to
Mordor and back before committing.
Feedback
Found a color that feels off, or want a realm that isn't here yet? Open an
issue at
github.com/bryce-richards/middle-earth-themes/issues.
Contributing
The themes are generated from gen.py; each lives in themes/ as plain JSON
(UI colors under colors, syntax under tokenColors / semanticTokenColors).
To tweak a theme, edit a hex value and run Developer: Reload Window. To add
a new realm, add a palette block and key to the order list in gen.py and
rerun it — package.json and the preview data regenerate automatically. See
the repository for
details.
License
MIT
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