J.R.R. Tolkien, renowned Catholic writer and ... move our hearts but may prompt us to virtue and increase our self-knowledge.” Tolkien’s works enabled Stanford to grow in his vocation as ...

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien ... hums throughout Tolkien’s epic. Among its themes of wartime valor, mercy, trauma and self-sacrifice, “The ...

It’s hard to imagine a world without Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, but we might be living in it if it weren’t for J.R.R ... into Tolkien’s personal life. There’s a portrait of his ...

From 1920 to 1943, J.R.R. Tolkien, the novelist who would later ... purportedly from Father Christmas himself and included a self-portrait of a man with a flowing white beard and red coat.

Some of J.R.R. Tolkien's characters lived to be more than ... Halbrand (Charlie Vickers): At first, this human seems only interested in self-preservation. But you start to sense there's more ...

We're talking about the opening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson's film adaptation (Part 1) of J.R.R. Tolkien's ... world (for which Tolkien, a self-taught artist, created ...

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 ...

"J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript," a new exhibit at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art, will be a pilgrimage site for scholars and fans until Christmas week. Its 147 items ...