Christopher spent his last years in the French countryside with his second wife, Baillie Tolkien. They have two children, Adam Reuel Tolkien and Rachel Clare Reuel Tolkien. Christopher criticised ...

There are plenty of things even the most ardent fans don't know about The Lord of the Rings author John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who was born on January 3, 1892. Here are 10 of them. 1. J.R.R ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, war veteran and Oxford medieval language professor who died more than 45 years ago, is about to be the subject of another of those global waves of fame that so perplexed ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was not a cradle Catholic. He was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa (then a member country of the British Commonwealth) and baptized as an infant in the Anglican Church ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in 1892. Orphaned before he was a teenager, he fought at the Somme in the First World War before going on to become one of the best-selling ...