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

The Middle-earth author spent some imaginary time in the North Pole for an audience of just four people: his children.

A hundred years ago, at the height of the First World War, John Tolkien, a 25-year-old former lieutenant with the Lancaster Fusiliers, went walking with his wife, Edith, in the Yorkshire countryside.

As Amazon Studios prepares to return to Middle-earth with its new “Lord of the Rings”series, Fox Searchlight sheds light on the man behind the fantasy epic, releasing a new trailer on Wednesday for ...

Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment. Edited by C.L. Wrenn and W.F. Bolton, U of Exeter P, 1992. Bliss, Alan. “Preface.” J.R.R. Tolkien, Finn and Hengest: The ...

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is looking at allegation in Birmingham's Roman Catholic Archdiocese A Roman Catholic Archdiocese was apparently aware of sexual abuse by Father John ...

One of Tolkien’s abandoned projects was an epic poem about the legend of King Arthur. Laid aside for decades, The Fall of Arthur has finally been published. Tolkien biographer John Garth on how it ...

As Amazon Studios prepares to return to Middle-earth with its new “Lord of the Rings”series, Fox Searchlight sheds light on the man behind the fantasy epic, releasing a new trailer on Wednesday for ...

THE Archdicese of Birmingham was warned about Father John Tolkien, son of Lord Of The Rings author JRR Tolkien, in 1968 but chose to keep the concerns “in house”, a child abuse inquiry heard. Rather ...