J.R.R. Tolkien created Middle-earth, but some of the most moving parts of his life were not fantasy. Orphaned as a child, he ...

Did you know that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were dear friends? That’s the hook of the remarkably ambitious new The post ...

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, the devout Catholic author whose Christian beliefs helped shape The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, will be honored with a memorial in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner alongside his ...

Benedict Cumberbatch and Peter Jackson are joining forces for a cause close to the heart of J.R.R. Tolkien’s family. The post ...

"The best tribute isn't a speech—it's a bucket list." An official trailer is available for this documentary film titled There ...

A new Oxford exhibition offers unusual artifacts of the famed writer. TOLKIEN TREASURES. Above, the final design of The Hobbit dust jacket is part of ‘Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth.’ Tolkien not only ...

J.R.R. Tolkien battled grief and despair, but his characters (including Frodo, played here by Elijah Wood) found hope. J.R.R. Tolkien has been gone for 50 years now, and Jan. 3 marks 129 years since ...

Before Tolkien created The Lord of the Rings, his precious was poetry, and now all of his poems can be found in one massive collection. To complete your collection, you can pick up the recently ...

After rewatching The Lord of the Rings trilogy, it’s easy to wish that there was more to the story. Sure, the books offer a lot more detail in terms of story and character than the films have time to, ...

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