A first-edition copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was sold at an auction after being donated to Oxfam along with a pile of ...

J.R.R. Tolkien died decades before Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy hit theaters, but let's dig into what Tolkien's ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's famous quote reminds us that while we cannot choose every circumstance in life, we can always choose how we ...

Morgoth is the greatest evil of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series and extended legendarium, but some characters ...

It’s hard to imagine a world without Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, but we might be living in it if it weren’t for J.R.R. Tolkien. The author is widely credited with giving birth to the modern ...

After rewatching The Lord of the Rings trilogy, it’s easy to wish that there was more to the story. Sure, the books offer a lot more detail in terms of story and character than the films have time to, ...

The Fall of Gondolin is considered one of Tolkien's Lost Tales, and one scene in particular may feel familiar. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author ...

A new Oxford exhibition offers unusual artifacts of the famed writer. TOLKIEN TREASURES. Above, the final design of The Hobbit dust jacket is part of ‘Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth.’ Tolkien not only ...

This year’s annual Tolkien Society seminar will pay “more critical attention than ever” to diversity issues, according to an announcement by the literary charity. Academics and non-academics alike ...

On Dec. 6, 2017, Pope Francis, in the midst of a video segment explicating the Lord’s Prayer on Italian television, voiced a criticism of the English translation of the phrase “lead us not into ...

How did J.R.R. Tolkien create The Lord of the Rings? The simple answer is that he wrote it. He sat down in a chair in 1937 and spent more than a dozen years working on what remains a masterwork of ...