This video examines whether J.R.R. Tolkien's vision for Gondor in The Lord of the Rings was inspired by the Byzantine Empire.

The Nazis asked 'The Hobbit' writer J.R.R. Toklien f he was Jewish and he replied with this clever but scathing letter.

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 ...

Quenya and Sindarin, created for Middle-earth, are still studied and used for poetry, inscriptions and online communication | ...

Before Tolkien created The Lord of the Rings, his precious was poetry, and now all of his poems can be found in one massive collection. To complete your collection, you can pick up the recently ...

In just a few days. J.R.R. Tolkien fans can get their hands on what might be the late author’s final work. The Fall of Gondolin will be published Aug. 30 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US and ...

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 ...

The identity of Tom Bombadil, a character Peter Jackson axed from his films, has long been debated. Some believe he could be God, but JRR Tolkien denied this.

After rewatching The Lord of the Rings trilogy, it’s easy to wish that there was more to the story. Sure, the books offer a lot more detail in terms of story and character than the films have time to, ...

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 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien battled grief and despair, but his characters (including Frodo, played here by Elijah Wood) found hope. J.R.R. Tolkien has been gone for 50 years now, and Jan. 3 marks 129 years since ...