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 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote several stories set in Middle-earth along with The Lord of the Rings, each taking place at different points in this fictional universe's timeline. Of course, with many of ...

King Lear also inspired Tolkien in LOTR, with Eowyn's fight similarly echoing Lear and other language allusions in the trilogy. Two literary titans of their time, William Shakespeare and J.R.R ...

NEW YORK – It has been a decade since the work of fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien last appeared on the big screen. It certainly left an impression when it last did, with New Zealand director Peter ...