Tragedy struck again in 1904, when Tolkien's mother was diagnosed with diabetes, which at the time was untreatable. By the end of the year she had died and Ronald and his brother were left orphaned.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth — the world of The Lord of the Rings and now the new animated film The War of the Rohirrim — was born, first and foremost, from Tolkien’s intense and lifelong love for ...

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is another box office hit based on J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a British writer, poet, philologist and a ...

John Ronald Long, 92, passed away on Friday, December 13, 2024 at his home 2 days following the death of his beloved wife of 64 years, Ethel Watkins Long. John’s family moved from Altoona ...

The last time a Democrat won Idaho’s vote for president was 60 years ago, in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson prevailed in a ...

Here's a look at the Bloomington and Normal public libraries' top circulated items in 2024: 1. "I Am Invited to a Party!" by ...

Ronald Cleveland, the former Mayor of the City of Council Bluffs, passed away Sunday December 15, 2024 at CHI-Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs at the age of 87 according to his obituary from the ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Thursday described herself as “more of a Ronald Reagan Republican” than a “Trump Republican.” “I don’t think I’ve made any secret of the fact that I ...

Her work previously appeared in Newsweek. Mediapunch/Shutterstock While John Lennon might have been one of the biggest rock stars in history to his adoring fans around the world, to his sons ...

We don’t know all of what the Trump Administration may do in the coming year, since many of the ideas floated have faded in and out and some have been contradicted here and there. But if there ...