A hundred years ago, at the height of the First World War, John Tolkien, a 25-year-old former lieutenant with the Lancaster Fusiliers, went walking with his wife, Edith, in the Yorkshire countryside.

Cops have quizzed the oldest son of “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien over allegations he sexually abused several young boys while working as a priest. The probe involves the Rev. John Tolkien ...

Sir Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies and Martin Freeman are asking fans to help save the U.K. property and give it a very special new life Lord of the Rings stars Sir Ian McKellen and John Rhys-Davies ...

Just last week, Stephen Colbert gave an interview in which the depth of his Catholic faith was on pretty clear display. Discussing the trauma that he experienced as a young man—the deaths of his ...

THE Archdicese of Birmingham was warned about Father John Tolkien, son of Lord Of The Rings author JRR Tolkien, in 1968 but chose to keep the concerns “in house”, a child abuse inquiry heard. Rather ...

As Amazon Studios prepares to return to Middle-earth with its new “Lord of the Rings”series, Fox Searchlight sheds light on the man behind the fantasy epic, releasing a new trailer on Wednesday for ...

Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment. Edited by C.L. Wrenn and W.F. Bolton, U of Exeter P, 1992. Bliss, Alan. “Preface.” J.R.R. Tolkien, Finn and Hengest: The ...

“There is no focal point for Tolkien fans throughout the world. Right at the moment, the object is to secure one,” Rhys-Davies, who played the dwarf Gimli in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, tells ...

‘The Lord of the Rings’ author wrote letters purporting to be from the North Pole for nearly a quarter-century. From 1920 to 1943, J.R.R. Tolkien, the novelist who would later become a revered figure ...

One of Tolkien’s abandoned projects was an epic poem about the legend of King Arthur. Laid aside for decades, The Fall of Arthur has finally been published. Tolkien biographer John Garth on how it ...

Author John Hendrix at work on an illustration. For kids who dream of other worlds, few books have been as influential, and beloved, as The Hobbit and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—other than, ...