GETTING THERE: Oxford is 56 miles northwest of London, about a 75-minute drive. By car, take the M40 to Junction 8. By train, it's an hour from London's Paddington Station; a Cheap Day Return ticket ...

(NEW ZEALAND) — A fellowship of celebrities have come together for Project Northmoor, a fundraising effort to save the Oxford house in which J.R.R. Tolkien wrote some of the most acclaimed books of ...

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On January 3, 2003, J.R.R. Tolkien would have celebrated his eleventy-first birthday, a most momentous occasion, the same birthday on which Bilbo departed the Shire for Rivendell. What would this ...

OXFORD, England (WHTM) — “…there lived a hobbit.” So begins an unassuming “children’s book” that would spawn a media juggernaut including (but not limited to) books, movies, TV shows, radio plays, ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, renowned Catholic writer and creator of Middle-earth, died 50 years ago this September. His books continue to captivate minds. Tolkien enthusiasts near and far continue to champion the ...

A British soldier began writing "The Fall of Gondolin" while in a hospital bed, stricken by "trench disease" from the lethal front lines of World War I. A German soldier, the painter Otto Dix, later ...