Bookshelf ‘The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien’ Review: Notes From Middle-earth The correspondence of the writer highlights his thinking about conflict, evil and courage during Britain’s war years.

Those beginning to explore author J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books are sure to come across or hear about The ...

For the first time since the original publication in 1954, a new edition of The Lord of the Rings launched in 2021 that ...

J.R.R. Tolkien once shared his thoughts on the title for The Return of the King, but his point has resolved itself over the ...

The original Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1981, included extracts from over 350 letters from the Lord of the Rings author to various people in his life and literary sphere. It was ...

A new collection of letters will shed light on the personality of one of the world’s literary giants, JRR Tolkien. Tolkien did not believe himself to be an inventor, but a conduit for his work ...

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 ...

Author J.R.R. Tolkien included some depictions of great longing — Aragorn yearns for Arwen, Éowyn yearns for Aragorn, ... his description of elf sex was found among his voluminous notes, ...

As a philologist, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy drew extensively from Nordic language and mythology when creating the world of Middle Earth, notes CU Boulder expert who ...

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is perhaps the most influential fantasy narrative of the past century. But few things ...

These are good questions to which J. R. R. Tolkien hints at an answer when he says that ... This should make us sit up and take note because March 25 is, of course, ...

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 ...