On the occasion John Tolkien, 3 years old, fished for information about Father Christmas, his own father spent the next 23 years responding. From 1920 to 1943, J.R.R. Tolkien, the novelist who would ...

Tolkien's massive body of work was mostly published after his death, including some of Middle-Earth's best stories.

J.R.R. Tolkien used his scholarly familiarity with ancient storytelling modes to create a world so vast it spills off of the ...

The desk that J.R.R. Tolkien used to write The Lord of the Rings is being auctioned with a hefty guide price of £50,000 to ...

Brandon Sanderson's hot take on authors copying J.R.R. Tolkien's works may be too late now for George R.R. Martin to hear!

Around 270 of his works will be exhibited for a year in the Tower Of Fantasy, which opens on Dec 18. Read more at ...

Fans of The Lord of the Rings love the huge, epic moments, but sometimes the smaller real world encounters are the ones that ...

This year’s annual Tolkien Society seminar will pay “more critical attention than ever” to diversity issues, according to an announcement by the literary charity. Academics and non-academics alike ...

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 ...

The Lord of the Rings looms large over pop culture. In the new biopic Tolkien (out May 10), the actor had to embody the man behind the myths Christian Holub is a writer covering comics and other geeky ...