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 ...

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Director Peter Jackson is in early talks with the Tolkien estate in adaptating Tolkien's other works to film.

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings introduced readers to some of the most memorable characters in fantasy literature, and ...

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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 Fall of Gondolin is considered one of Tolkien's Lost Tales, and one scene in particular may feel familiar. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author ...

This year’s annual Tolkien Society seminar will pay “more critical attention than ever” to diversity issues, according to an announcement by the literary charity. Academics and non-academics alike ...

A new Oxford exhibition offers unusual artifacts of the famed writer. TOLKIEN TREASURES. Above, the final design of The Hobbit dust jacket is part of ‘Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth.’ Tolkien not only ...

Palantir, the data analysis defense contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, was named after the magical seeing stones from ...

J.R.R. Tolkien - and more about that pronunciation in a minute - had a love for language and fantasy that drew fans into the worlds he created in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord Of The Rings." The Oxford ...