Northern Ireland - Lewis' birthplace - is widely credited as the true inspiration for Narnia, but according to Mr Johnson, it ...

Yet unlike in the novel, Bilbo did not see the dragon firework, and when Frodo Baggins mentioned a dragon, Bilbo scoffed, ...

To Western readers, Tolkien wrote fantasy—but to Soviet censors, his tales carried dangerous truths. Why was Middle-Earth ...

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