In the lore of The Lord of the Rings, there was a pantheon of godlike beings called Valar, and an older draft included two ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Silmarillion” tells of the aeons before recorded human history. He never published it. His son did. The ...

Mississippi State University’s Inklings Club is hosting a talk by history professor Christopher Snyder about J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...

In Kalevala: The Graphic Novel artist Sami Makkonen presents a stunning comic adaptation of the Finnish national epic the Kalevala, which inspired J.R.R. Tolkien to write The Silmarillion and The ...

That privilege is to live near the coast and to be able to enjoy the sound of the sea with some frequency. It is what I call ...

Tolkien described the epic love story of the Elvish princess Luthien and the mortal Beren in 'The Silmarillion'. In the universe of 'The Lord of the Rings', it is considered to be the greatest ...

After his father’s death, Tolkien’s youngest son, Christopher (1924–2020), became his literary heir, publishing his father’s The Silmarillion in 1977, Unfinished Tales in 1980, the twelve ...

If you're new to the Tolkien Illustrated Editions, you can also get The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion in standard ... released Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien 3-Volume Box Set for ...