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 ...

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.

Why J.R.R. Tolkien Is Really Turning in ... The guy was a tweedy professor of Anglo-Saxon literature at lily-white Oxford University in the 1940s and 1950s — it wouldn’t be surprising if he ...

Most people are likely aware — at least vaguely — that J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was Catholic.. Fewer, perhaps, know how seriously he took his faith ...

Ablaze's graphic biography of J. R. R. Tolkien's life by Willy Duraffourg and Giancarlo Caracuzzo was originally published in 2019 by Soleil. Published Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:57:08 -0500 by Rich Johnston ...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, a date which yielded a spate of memorializing essays. I didn’t write one because although I’m currently reading “The ...