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

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

As a scholar of real-world languages, J. R. R. Tolkien created a rich linguistic tapestry of over a dozen languages for his ...

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 ...

Read the full “Overlooked No More” obituary at The New York Times. GET A.V.CLUB RIGHT IN YOUR INBOX Pop culture obsessives ...

While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films and TV shows are closer than you might imagine. The first book in J R R ...

The world-first exhibition brings together artefacts from the British Library and portraits from the National Portrait Gallery in London.

The War of the Rohirrim is the latest film to try to correct the writer’s ‘misogyny’. It grotesquely misunderstands the man and his work JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth is an inexhaustible ...

The fantasy genre was not always as popular as it is today. Currently there are authors of the stature of George R.R. Martin and Brandon Sanderson, which sell millions of copies around the world.

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 ...

Any cultural critic can complain, as I did in last weekend’s column, about the lack of creativity in American popular culture right now and the unmet “hunger for a certain kind of popular art ...