In the final years of his life, the author of The Lord of the Rings published one of his least-known stories, and it deserves ...

J.R.R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings and Frank Herbert's Dune are some of the most influential works of literature of all time. These stories are etched into the DNA of high fantasy and science ...

George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones dives into the messy aftermath of victory, a bold move J.R.R. Tolkien avoided in the ...

J R R Tolkien (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) These critics claim they aren’t being racists. Their complaints, they insist, are entirely literary; ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, renowned Catholic writer and creator of Middle-earth, died 50 years ago this September. His books continue to captivate minds.

J.R.R. Tolkien never quit his day job.. Instead, his work as a philologist and professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at the University of Oxford fed the brilliantly detailed fantasy worlds ...

While neither is noted for writing dystopian or futuristic fiction, both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis wrote of the warped view of eternal life that may emerge in the future.

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, a magical ring gave the wearer the power of invisibility.Some have speculated the ring was a symbol for something in the real ...

Of all the performances in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, Ian McKellen’s portrayal of the wizard Gandalf has long resonated the most with both fans and newcomers to J.R.R. Tolkien ...

On Nov. 29, 1931, J.R.R. Tolkien introduced the world to Middle-earth — the most important part of it, anyway. The Hobbit wouldn’t be published for six more years.

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, a date which yielded a spate of memorializing essays.I didn’t write one because although I’m currently reading “The Lord ...