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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...