The new book is titled Beren and Lúthien, and it is described by Christopher Tolkien (who is the executor of his father’s estate) as a “very personal story”. Here the Oxford professor wrote the story ...

A lost tale of the "first real story" of Lord of the Rings' Middle-earth will be released more than 100 years after author JRR Tolkien first started writing. What to Read Next The late writer's son ...

A hundred years ago, at the height of the First World War, John Tolkien, a 25-year-old former lieutenant with the Lancaster Fusiliers, went walking with his wife, Edith, in the Yorkshire countryside.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s love of languages played a large part in the development of The Lord of the Rings and his other books, says Bradley J. Birzer, an assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College.

It's confirmed: J.R.R. Tolkien is the Tupac of the literary fantasy world. A new Tolkien book The Story of Kullervo will be published later this month in the United Kingdom, 42 years after the iconic ...