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 saturated ...

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.

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 ...

Tolkien made the choice to follow his mother into her new faith, receiving the sacraments of holy Communion and Confirmation at the age of 12.

Many readers of Tolkien’s work are familiar with his adventure classic The Hobbit and the three-volume epic The Lord of the Rings, but there are thousands of years of significantly grimmer and ...

Red State, a far-right website, along with a bunch of other katzenjammer culture warriors, have been arguing that the series “perverts and corrupts” J.R.R. Tolkien’s vision of a medieval ...

In the University Botanical Gardens at Magdalen stands another memorial: a strong, tall, green tree called Pinus Nigra. This is said to have been the tree-loving Tolkien’s favorite.

How J.R.R. Tolkien Came to Write the Stories of ‘The Rings of Power’ Haunted by the approach of another world war, the beloved fantasy author created a new story of Middle-earth that few ...

Ablaze's graphic biography of J. R. R. Tolkien's life by Willy Duraffourg and Giancarlo Caracuzzo was originally published in 2019 by Soleil.

J.R.R. Tolkien ’s estate has filed a bombshell lawsuit accusing a writer of ripping off the late author’s iconic Lord of The Rings series and is demanding his books be taken out of stores ...