J.R.R. Tolkien never quit his day job.. Instead, his work as a philologist and professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at the University of Oxford fed the brilliantly detailed fantasy worlds ...

A new exhibit featuring “The Hobbit” author J. R. R. Tolkien’s manuscripts is coming to Marquette University’s campus. Marquette's Haggerty Museum of Art ...

An unfinished manuscript that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth will be published in late August in the United Kingdom and late October in the United States, according to reports. Tolkien ...

MILWAUKEE — The vast collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts initially sold senior Joe Kirchoff on Marquette University, so when the school offered its first course devoted exclusively to th… ...

The Marquette University library director purchased thousands of pages of J.R.R. Tolkien's manuscripts in the 1950s for less than $5,000. Skip to content NOWCAST WISN 12 News at 6 p.m.

A very rare book lost for 45 years has found its way back to the University of North Texas. It's a first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' that made it home after an adventure of its own.

Christopher Tolkien, son of "The Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien, has died, The Tolkien Society announced Thursday. He was 95. Tolkien was born in Leeds, United Kingdom, in 1924.

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote more than just The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but his Middle-earth books weren't released in chronological order.

J.R.R. Tolkien's illustrations and maps for "The Hobbit," one of his best-loved works, are now collected in a new volume, "The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien." See a slideshow of images.