She also has the street cred of having co-written the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings film trilogy. It started, of course, ...

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 ...

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 books, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Adaptations followed ...

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic. Yet long before he was the "father 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 ...

The Istari are mentioned in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, but Peter Jackson's famous trilogy adaptation tends to just use the term "Wizard." The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales explain ...

With War of the Rohirrim in cinemas soon, Lord of the Rings writer Philippa Boyens has revealed one Tolkien text she wants the rights to.

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 ...