"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 ...

As the school year at the University of Colorado Boulder begins, one group of students is learning the origins of orcs, elves, goblins, dwarves, wizards and other fantastical creatures inhabiting ...

J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien (1892-1973) was an Oxford University English writer and scholar. His works include The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), with more than 700 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote several stories set in Middle-earth along with The Lord of the Rings, each taking place at different points in this fictional universe's timeline. Of course, with many of ...

She is a graduate of Kingston University and has degrees ... You can get in touch with Roxy by emailing [email protected]. Now, fans of Tolkien's writing and Jackson's films will be able ...

Gerry Canavan is chair of the English department at Marquette University. More from Book ... demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is perhaps the most ...

While neither is noted for writing dystopian or futuristic fiction, both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis wrote of the warped view of eternal life that may emerge in the future. When Middle-earth was ...

To recreate Tolkien’s lost island, the show’s creators, J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay ... written by his friend R.W. Chambers. More, a counselor to Henry VIII, and lord chancellor for three ...

Tolkien relished his weekly meetings with this club of remarkable friends. Thursday evenings in Lewis’s Magdalen College rooms and Tuesdays for lunch at the Eagle and Child public house, Tolkien ...

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 ...