After Bilbo's 111th birthday party, Frodo, Samwise "Sam" Gamgee, and a few other hobbits had a drink at The Green Dragon Inn ...

In The Letters of JRR Tolkien, Christopher, his son, reveals that Tolkien called Birmingham his home town along with Oxford.

How does one track a language evolving so fast? Efforts have involved JRR Tolkein, K-dramas, and a red post box that still stands outside a home in Oxford.

If you’ve never read him, then “Von Bek,” which collects two of his novels about the Von Bek clan and their participation in the search for the Holy Grail, is an ideal place to start. All his ongoing ...

JRR Tolkien, who is indeed a hero to many, was born in South Africa, the family emigrated to England when he was 4 years old. He studied at Oxford and laterbecame Professor of English Language at ...

JRR Tolkien memorial unveiled at ceremony hosted by fantasy author Neil Gaiman The memorial was created by sculptor Tim Tolkien, the author's grand-nephew (Image: Nicholas Posner) ...

Credit: Hanson Ross From 1925 to 1945, JRR Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Oxford.

Readers about to plunge into the revised and expanded edition of 'The Letters of JRR Tolkien' would be well advised to block out time in their diaries — days, weeks even — so much is there to ...

Christopher Tolkien’s wife, Baillie, had them compiled and published for a book titled The Father Christmas Letters. The originals later went on display at the University of Oxford in 2017.

The Oxford English Dictionary relied on contributions by volunteers from around the world. “The Dictionary People,” by Sarah Ogilvie, tells the fascinating story.

The dictionary’s contributors are an engaging cast, including three murderers, a vegetarian vicar, one of Karl Marx ’s daughters and J.R.R. Tolkien.

In 1925, Tolkien won a professorship at the University of Oxford. A year later he translated the Old English poem, . He remained a professor of English language and literature for the next 20 years.