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, ...

John Garth, author of Tolkien biography Tolkien and the Great War, told The Guardian that he believes the estate’s response to the film was “sensible”, as “biopics typically take ...

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

JRR Tolkien - full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - was an English writer, poet and academic. He is best known for his fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien is often ...

JRR Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin, which the author described as "the first real story" set in Middle-earth, is to be published as a stand-alone book for the first time. The book charts the story ...

JRR Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, is the latest cultural icon to find himself in the Evil Genius hotseat, with comedians Thanyia Moore, Lauren Pattison and Pierre Novellie ...

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 ...