J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation,”C. Drout offers some clues. Drout, a professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, is a ...

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

Tolkien's estate has signed a deal with HarperCollins to release it as a book in May, accompanied by further thoughts on the text which he prepared for a series of lectures given at Oxford during his ...

One of the most noticeable — and appealing — aspects of both J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit (1937) and ‘The Lord of the Rings (1954) is the incredible sense of depth conveyed. Characters in both are ...

Should the creator of the Lord of the Rings be acknowledged as the foremost author of the twentieth century? Until recently it hadn’t dawned on me that Tolkien’s books are not considered literature in ...

A memorial to The Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has been unveiled at the University of Oxford college where he used to teach. The bronze sculpture, created by sculptor Tim Tolkien, the writer's ...

Did you know that every March 25, the Tolkien Society and readers all over the world celebrate Tolkien Reading Day? It’s the day, in the Lord of the Rings canon, when the Lord of the Rings (Sauron) is ...

Easily in the top three of the best book-to-movie series ever, The Lord of the Rings retains a long-time fanbase that varies between casual viewers and all-out lore obsessors. While many existing ...