A professor sits in his study at Northmoor Road, grading exam papers. His name is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. He fought in the ...

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 ...

The One Ring was the focus of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it isn't the franchise's most powerful treasure ...

As a philologist, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy drew extensively from Nordic language and mythology when creating the world of Middle Earth, notes CU Boulder expert who ...

If you have ever wondered about the greater cosmology of Middle-earth, you aren't alone. Both The Lord of the Rings films and The Rings of Power television series have alluded to greater powers at ...

"The Lord of the Rings" is more popular than ever as "The Rings of Power" brings new readers to the Shire. We're here to help ...

Peter Jackson has directed six movies set in Middle-earth, and all have at least one iconic scene, with even The Hobbit films ...

Author J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a whole lot more about Middle-earth than his famed The Lord of the Rings novels. Middle-earth is a place full of magic and monsters, including many races of humanoid ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, renowned Catholic writer and creator of Middle-earth, died 50 years ago this September. His books continue to captivate minds. Tolkien enthusiasts near and far continue to champion the ...

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” She used a grid system to index locations without ...

Three years after Swedish video game studio Embracer purchased the rights to The Lord of the Rings, they announced ...