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 ...

THEY say it's not what you know, but who you know - and when it comes to fame, family connections are often what really count ...

For most of us, the days of keeping a stash of folded-up maps in the car glovebox are behind us. So in a world of smartphones and GPS, why go to a store that specializes in maps? That’s the question ...

The inside story of the teenager whose “swatting” calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the ...

Neil Gaiman, the world-renowned author of Caroline and The Sandman, is widely celebrated across the globe for his imaginative storytelling. But his image has taken a hit after serious sexual assault ...

Its website has an online store selling cosmetics and in-game upgrades, and also offers a handy Wiki to get you up to ... in textured blocks, it was Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.

Frankfort is the kind of place where “beachfront property” means your sandcastle might survive until high tide. This Lake ...

If Wikipedia was a game, it would take the shape of this book ... The ecosystem down in the mines of Moria that is easily disturbed by throwing a rock down a hole (J.R.R. Tolkien). The cities beyond ...

Working as a professor, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien never expected the Middle ... according to one Beatles biography. He passed away in 2016. (1926) ...

The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia ...