Daniel Grotta’s critical biography of J.R.R. Tolkein bears several distinctions. “J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth” from Running Press was the first biography of the author of “The Hobbit” ...

Mark Guiney is the manager of video production in Digital Productions at The Heritage Foundation. He also produces and creates video for The Daily Signal. John Hendrix’s magically illustrated ...

Most people know about famous author J. R. R. Tolkien and his works such as "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings." But do people know Tolkien's rich backstory? Or that his name is pronounced ...

In 1954, the novel "The Lord of the Rings" is a popular work even if decades after the announcement, such as Amazon's dramaization is on the way. JR, R · Tolkien, the creator of the ring story, grew ...

From light romps to profound reads, a bumper crop of books tells us more about the maker of Middle-earth. For a warm portrait of the man and his work, see Clyde Kilby, Tolkien and the Silmarillion ...

We may know him best for giving us the world of Middle-earth, but J.R.R. Tolkien was a man of many talents. As an esteemed scholastic linguist, he gave an influential lecture at Oxford about the ...

TOLKIEN - A BIOGRAPHY by Michael White. Published in hardback by Little Brown, £16.99. Now his masterpiece is on the big screen, Tokien's life is a hot topic. In his new biography, Michael White ...

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 1890's ...

A trailer of the biography movie " TOLKIEN" depicting the life of JRR Tolkien, the creator of "The Lord of the Rings" was released. The fact that Tolkien, the parents of which died and orphaned, ...

First, a bit of movie history concerning films based on works by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. There was the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy (“The Fellowship of the Ring,” “The Two Towers,” and “The Return ...