John Garth, author of Tolkien biography Tolkien and the Great War, told The Guardian that he believes the estate’s response to the film was “sensible”, as “biopics typically take ...
Tuesday September 2nd 2003 is the 30th anniversary of the death of JRR Tolkien. His parents both came from Birmingham but his father, Arthur, who was a bank clerk, moved to South Africa in the ...
“Professor Tolkien said in his letters that sometimes the most compelling story is the untold story.” That’s what Philippa Boyens told me when I interviewed her recently about the new ...
Why is this so? What is different about him? For answers, we would do well to look at the recent work of Holly Ordway, whose 2023 biography Tolkien’s Faith constitutes a significant breakthrough ...