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.

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.

'The Lord of the Rings' returned to cinemas for its anniversary with an $11 million box office.

It’s hard to imagine a world without Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, but we might be living in it if it weren’t for J.R.R. Tolkien. The author is widely credited with giving birth to the modern ...

The best Lord of the Rings movie would blend a high-stakes mission and romance, but there's one thing preventing it from ...

When most people read J.R.R. Tolkien, they get swept up in mythical worlds of hobbits and elves, harrowing journeys in fantastical lands and epic battles of good and evil. But Walter Judd says he got ...

Tolkien stars Hoult as the British author and Lily Collins as his wife Edith J.R.R. Tolkien’s family is making it clear that they do not support an upcoming biopic starring Nicholas Hoult as the ...

Fantasy novel enthusiasts wish to turn the house of famed Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien in Oxford, where he wrote "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit," into a meeting place for writers, ...

What would J.R.R. Tolkien have made of “Tolkien,” the touching, polished, impeccably well-behaved new movie about his early life? The author’s estate has already weighed in, distancing itself from a ...

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It's a sad day for Middle-earth. Tolkien was born in Leeds, United Kingdom, in 1924. He grew up in Oxford before joining the Royal Air Force to fight in World War II, where he was stationed in South ...