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 ...

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 ...

JRR Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin, which the author described as "the first real story" set in Middle-earth, is to be published as a stand-alone book for the first time. The book charts the story ...

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 ...

It started, of course, with J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy book series. Adaptations followed over the years, first on radio, then in animation, before Jackson finally brought the realm of Middle ...