A new movie about The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien is coming to theatres next month. Among other things, the film confirms the correct pronunciation of the man's last name.

SEATTLE — There’s a good chance you’ve been pronouncing a famous author’s name wrong. J.R.R. Tolkien is known as the “father of modern fantasy literature” for writing masterpieces like Lord of the ...

The new film comes down very hard on the topic of how to pronounce J.R.R. Tolkien’s name — and funnily enough, it’s at odds with how nerds like Colbert always thought: It’s toll-KEEN, not toll-KIN.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is full of high drama, what with all those wizards and dragons and cataclysmic battles. Tolkien, the movie about the man who invented Middle Earth, is decidedly not high ...