It’s hard to imagine a world without Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, but we might be living in it if it weren’t for J.R.R. Tolkien. The author is widely credited with giving birth to the modern ...
University professor, author and Word on Fire academic fellow Holly Ordway has been fascinated by The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien since her teen years. Indeed, her doctoral thesis was on ...
“This material is unknown to Tolkien fans so it’s going to be marvelous,” show curator Catherine McIlwaine, the Bodleian’s Tolkien archivist, told BBC. Titled “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth,” the ...
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), “The Shores of Faery, 10 May 1915,” watercolor, black ink, pencil (Tolkien Trust, MS,Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 22r., © The ...
The Lord of the Rings was first published in the mid-’50s, and, along with the rest of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, was intended to provide Great Britain with its very own formative mythology (the ...
Much like how Bilbo Baggins couldn’t resist the lure of the one true ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” one North Texas library patron couldn’t resist the lure of a rare copy of that same book — ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COSHOCTON − The Coshocton County District Library recently held a craft class in honor of Tolkien Reading Day on March 25.