Most people are likely aware — at least vaguely — that J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was Catholic. Fewer, perhaps, know how seriously he took his faith, in a time ...

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 ...

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 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, renowned Catholic writer and creator of Middle-earth, died 50 years ago this September. His books continue to captivate minds. Tolkien enthusiasts near and far continue to champion the ...

We are proud to announce the publication of #TheFallofNumenor by J.R.R. Tolkien this November. Illustrated by Alan Lee, this book will present for the first time in one volume the events of the Second ...

J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973, but 45 years later, his old writings are still finding their way into reader’s hands. The latest is called The Fall of Gondolin and it’ll be out in August. Tolkien wrote ...

May 8—Douglas A. Anderson's notes opening the Mariner edition of "The Lord of the Rings" makes the argument that J.R.R. Tolkien's best-known work is erroneously called a trilogy when it is actually ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. A new exhibit featuring “The Hobbit” author J. R. R.

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 ...