The quote “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” from J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings ...
The Lord of the Rings has many great quotes, but Gandalf's best comes in an unlikely scene that still impacts viewers decades ...
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 ...
Set between the events of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hunt for Gollum places the spotlight on the Hobbit ...
The Kennedy School celebrates the author’s 134th birthday with a costume contest, “Hobbit” trilogy marathon and quest to find ...
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 ...
A dark, malevolent force is gathering on the edge of Middle-earth. It’s more poisonous than the Witch-King of Angmar. More toxic than Smaug. More evil than Sauron himself. That’s right, conservatives ...
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 ...
Instead, his work as a philologist and professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at the University of Oxford fed the brilliantly detailed fantasy worlds saturated with myth that he created in "The Lord of ...
Like so many people, I’ve read The Lord of the Rings and watched the movies and appreciated the elaborate world-building of J ...
This article is an adaptation of a lecture, “Tolkien, Heroic Christianity and the Dangers of Neo-Paganism,” delivered at the Sept. 17-19 EWTN Gotland Forum in Sweden. J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most ...