"It's remarkable that you can have a culture that's shunted into the west side of England that has nothing to do with the ...

T he days leading up to Christmas in 1941 effectively obliterated any sentimental notions about “peace on earth” and “good will toward men.” Not even Father Christmas could evade the nightmare ...

Elves in the Lord of the Rings saga live a long time. A very, very long time, in fact. But they're not exactly 'immortal.' ...

In his new book, English professor Michael Drout delves into Tolkien’s life and work while reminiscing about his own father ...

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 ...

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

A pristine set of first edition, first impression copies of the Lord of the Ring series by J.R.R. Tolkien just set a new ...

Poetically, Tolkien’s long struggle to realize his vision — the self-doubt that led to long pauses in composition, his ...

A new website from the Tolkien estate includes some previously unpublished artwork by the fantasy author. J.R.R. Tolkien, Mithrim (1920s), detail. This pastel landscape of Lake Mithrim in the land of ...

Tolkien's massive body of work was mostly published after his death, including some of Middle-Earth's best stories.

When most people read J.R.R. Tolkien, they get swept up in mythical worlds of hobbits and elves, harrowing journeys in fantastical lands and epic battles of good and evil. But Walter Judd says he got ...

Christopher Tolkien, the son of “The Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien, has died, the Tolkien Society announced Thursday. He was 95 years old. Tolkien was his father’s literary executor, ...