On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...
HarperCollins has been busy refreshing their J.R.R. Tolkien offerings with spectacular illustrated editions of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. They also released The Fall of Numenor, which ...
A new book of J.R.R. Tolkien’s writing is soon to be published. According to The Tolkien Society, The Fall of Númenor will collect together all of Tolkien’s writing on the Second Age – the stories ...
More than 30 years before “The Fellowship of the Ring” was published, J.R.R. Tolkien began another fictional exercise. It didn’t involve hobbits or Middle-earth. Beginning in 1920, the author took on ...
J. R. R. Tolkien was one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He is best known for making a rich fantasy world that has inspired millions of readers all over the world. His full name was ...
If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. Yet long before he was the “father of ...