She used a grid system to index locations without latitude ... Her resulting book, “The Atlas of Middle-earth” (1981), wowed Tolkien fans and scholars with its exquisite level of topographic ...

The Hobbit, the earliest of Professor Tolkien’s selections from the Red Book, was first published ... Professor Tolkien labored with a formidable index listing the lineage of his characters ...

The special slipcased version of the wonderful Tolkien Illustrated Edition of The Hobbit released in October.

Among J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published Lord of the Rings books is The Silmarillion, a lengthy textbook that covers all ...

Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light,” a new “Bridget Jones” and Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear series are some of this ...

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of ... Love everything about books? Make sure to subscribe to our Book Club newsletter, where Ron ...

Tuesday September 2nd 2003 is the 30th anniversary of the death of JRR Tolkien. His parents both ... author of the Narnia books. He began his writing to amuse his four children, but his love ...

One of the easiest ways to get started investing is through index funds. What we'll cover How index funds work Index investing is a form of passive investing Index investing with a brokerage ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Our current decade has brought in some great recent reads — see our picks here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.