“The archive which covers a stream of exchanges between author AA Milne, illustrator EH Shepherd and publisher Frederick Muller of Methuen has been discovered hidden amongst the papers of the late ...

Click through this gallery and read up on the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien, and discover what inspired him to write his epic masterpieces of literary magic.

A 60-plus year career that involved starting a neighborhood newspaper at age 11 earned national attention for Guy Mattison ...

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George Orwell, the celebrated author of 1984 and Animal Farm, will be celebrated on a new £2 coin design. The coin features a ...

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This story by Allen Best appeared on BigPivots.com on December 12, 2024. The civil rights movement of the mid-20th century has greatly informed the life’s work of Auden Schendler in pushing for 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 Lord of the Rings has become a defining story in the fantasy genre. The epic tale of good versus evil in the magical setting of Middle-earth remains popular decades later, partially because ...

Chinese fans of the fantastic world of Middle-earth, created by English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, recently had their enthusiasm re-ignited by the release of the new animated film The Lord of the ...