J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by everything from the poem The ...

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, in a time ...

HarperCollins has been busy refreshing their J.R.R. Tolkien offerings with spectacular illustrated editions of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. They also released The Fall of Numenor, which ...

J.R.R. Tolkien used his scholarly familiarity with ancient storytelling modes to create a world so vast it spills off of the ...

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...

Poetically, Tolkien’s long struggle to realize his vision — the self-doubt that led to long pauses in composition, his frustrations with publishers and his general inability to be satisfied enough ...

May 8—Douglas A. Anderson's notes opening the Mariner edition of "The Lord of the Rings" makes the argument that J.R.R. Tolkien's best-known work is erroneously called a trilogy when it is actually ...

The desk that J.R.R. Tolkien used to write The Lord of the Rings is being auctioned with a hefty guide price of £50,000 to ...

Brandon Sanderson's hot take on authors copying J.R.R. Tolkien's works may be too late now for George R.R. Martin to hear!

On the occasion John Tolkien, 3 years old, fished for information about Father Christmas, his own father spent the next 23 years responding. From 1920 to 1943, J.R.R. Tolkien, the novelist who would ...

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, in a ...