After the armistice in 1918 Tolkien worked briefly on the New English Dictionary project ... author of the Narnia books. He began his writing to amuse his four children, but his love of language ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in England in 1892 and became famous for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and several other books set ... the Oxford English Dictionary, specializing ...

Like people, words have birthdays. My definition of the birthday of a word is the year in which it first appeared in a ...

Hundreds of fans of the 'fairy porn' genre were spotted waiting outside bookshops across the UK to be the first to get their hands on a copy of Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.

In the books, the hobbits receive their Barrow ... fierce" or "cruel" (via Bosworth Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary). While J. R. R. Tolkien devised the languages spoken by the elves and dwarves ...

The most interesting book I recently finished is the Dictionary Of The Khazars by Milorad Pavi&cacute ... Moria that is easily disturbed by throwing a rock down a hole (J.R.R. Tolkien). The cities ...

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

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 ...

Here are Parade’s 116 Best Kids books of all time, according to indie booksellers from across the country; acclaimed authors ...

These include monstership —as in, “Your monstership”; bemonster, meaning “to treat someone like a monster”; monsterfy, “to ...

In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey ... ‘The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia ...