In 1957, newly hired Marquette University Director of Libraries William Ready was on the hunt for material to fill the Memorial Library, which had opened in 1953. Ready began aggressively purchasing ...

Decades before Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, J. R. R. Tolkien outlined what should happen to Saruman in a ...

A new Oxford exhibition offers unusual artifacts of the famed writer. TOLKIEN TREASURES. Above, the final design of The Hobbit dust jacket is part of ‘Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth.’ Tolkien not only ...

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 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories are more than fantasy, they are rooted in history. This video explores how the myths and past of England inspired Middle Earth.

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 ...

"We are committed to keeping his stories alive for generations to come," the Tolkien Estate said in a statement on Wednesday. By Lily Ford London-based agency Curtis Brown Heritage has welcomed the ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on forward.com Jul. 26, 2019. We’re republishing it today on the occasion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday. In 1938, with the world tipping toward war, ...

It was 50 years ago when a curious reader, whose name and original inquiry have since been lost to time, sent a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit author had already released the books for which ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s family is making it clear that they do not support an upcoming biopic starring Nicholas Hoult as the legendary author. The Dome Karukoski-directed Tolkien, which chronicles The Lord ...

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are household names to Christian thinkers. Tolkien, the author of “Lord of the Rings” — which is inspiring a new set of movies in the coming years — described the work as ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...