CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

The Silmarillion has a reputation for being a bit impenetrable, and even though The Lord of the Rings is my favourite book series, I'd never picked it up. When I finally did I was surprised.

On July 29, 1954 — 70 years ago Monday — English author, linguist and university professor J.R.R. Tolkien published “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first of three volumes of a richly detailed world ...

Hello, book fans! It’s fandom week here at the book review, so buckle up as we travel through one of my favorites, the world of J.R.R. Tolkien. Whether based on authors, individual books or a series, ...

The Silmarillion is famously a challenging read, but I'm glad I read it - many parts of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings are so much more meaningful to me now.

Everyone loves "The Lord of the Rings." They make up a quarter of the top 12 movies of all time on IMDb's top 250 movie list, for goodness' sake. "The Hobbit" films are less grand but still ...

The world beloved by fans of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” will come alive again in the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings about Middle-earth. “The Nature of Middle-earth,” a ...

The world-building of J.R.R. Tolkien is so rich and his descriptive powers so great that countless readers feel as though they almost inhabit his creations. But what of the places that Tolkien himself ...

In 2017, you will finally be able to buy a copy of Beren and Lúthien, a story of old Middle-earth, written by none other than J.R.R. Tolkien himself. Or, you could go buy one of a half-dozen already ...

World War II led C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to infuse their early experiments in fantasy with a sense of moral urgency.

I made Feanor’s Spirit saving Gondolin from the Balrog. In this video, I made Feanor’s spirit saving Gondolin from the Balrog ...