The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the ...

Tuesday September 2nd 2003 is the 30th anniversary of the death of JRR Tolkien. His parents both came from Birmingham but his father, Arthur, who was a bank clerk, moved to South Africa in the ...

The first part of this investigation into whether J.R.R. Tolkien's work is racist examines the creatures of Middle-earth, ...

A 2,500-year-old Chinese sword discovered in 1965 remains razor-sharp and pristine today, seemingly defying the natural laws ...

Polygon sat down with Boyens to discuss adapting the world of Middle-earth to another medium and what she learned about screenwriting, moviemaking, and J.R.R. Tolkien himself on The War of the ...

The Lord of the Rings doesn’t go out of style. J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories have accompanied us for almost a century, and they have done so with a series of books and stories that have taken us to ...

Simon Smith, 57, unearthed the rare haul of letters and drawings exchanged between the creators of the famous bear tucked away inside carrier bags in Malvern. His father Leslie, who died aged 96 in ...

JRR Tolkien Credit: Haywood Magee All of which meant that, in the summer of 1978, Ralph Bakshi was both the best and worst person to adapt Lord of the Rings. Like many Tolkien fans, he was a ...

A son said he was "gobsmacked" to discover a collection of correspondence between Winnie the Pooh creator AA Milne, his ...

However, none of them would have gotten where they are without the influence of J.R.R. Tolkien. The creator of ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ changed literature forever ...

The remarkable tale of a stolen first edition of The Hobbit, returned to its home at The University of North Texas after ...

It started, of course, with J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy book series. Adaptations followed over the years, first on radio, then in animation, before Jackson finally brought the realm of Middle ...