The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien was many things: scholar, novelist, inventor of worlds, and reluctant idol. In this 1968 BBC documentary to rule them all, Tolkien gives a free-ranging ...
The author of The Lord of the Rings once shared the two parts of his novel that he believed were "the best in the book," and ...
Yet unlike in the novel, Bilbo did not see the dragon firework, and when Frodo Baggins mentioned a dragon, Bilbo scoffed, ...
Robert Plant chatted with Stephen Colbert about his new album, 'Saving Grace', and the profound influence J.R.R. Tolkien had on Led Zeppelin.
Robert Plant and Stephen Colbert ignored the Late Show audience to bond over the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. "Fancy a drink ...
Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment. Edited by C.L. Wrenn and W.F. Bolton, U of Exeter P, 1992. Bliss, Alan. “Preface.” J.R.R. Tolkien, Finn and Hengest: The ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 came to a dramatic conclusion last Friday, revealing the identity of Sauron and answering other burning questions that fans had. With so many key ...
On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...
A woman who bought a copy of The Hobbit from an op shop in the 1990s says even then she suspected it could be worth a considerable amount — experts now say she could be sitting on a first edition copy ...