Simon Tolkien: my inspiration for writing The Palace at the End of the Sea and its sequel, The Room of Lost Steps.

With over 150 million copies sold ... this, Tolkien has many left-wing fans. They can point to his celebration of working-class heroes like Sam Gamgee over the more well-heeled and gentlemanly Frodo, ...

What will delight lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien most is the portrait of the man that is drawn in the pages ... family life helped to keep him grounded and produced the humility and self-effacing qualities ...

We're talking about the opening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson's film adaptation (Part 1) of J.R.R. Tolkien's ... world (for which Tolkien, a self-taught artist, created ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's literary world reaches beyond hobbits and rings ... Also Read: 8 Books by Herman Hesse That Will Reshape How You See Life and Self Tolkien’s genius isn’t confined to a trilogy—it ...

These include Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Enid Blyton, Thomas Hardy, John Fowles, and Tracy Chevalier. The self-led trail focuses on authors associated with the east of the county around main ...

Tolkien’s grandson, Simon, married an American Jew. Their son (J.R.R. Tolkien’s great-grandson) is the religiously observant Nicholas Tolkien, who wrote Terezin, a play about the notorious ...

Hobbits, with their trademark charm and quaintness, have become synonymous with J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of ... laid the ...

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien ... hums throughout Tolkien’s epic. Among its themes of wartime valor, mercy, trauma and self-sacrifice, “The ...

C.S. Lewis photograph: John Chillingworth/Picture Post via Getty Images; J.R.R. Tolkien photograph: collection National Portrait Gallery, London At that time fantastical fiction was generally ...