World War II led C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to infuse their early experiments in fantasy with a sense of moral urgency.

J.R.R. Tolkien made a vast and detailed lore for The Lord of the Rings, but one aspect was far more important than anyone ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's famous quote challenges the idea that a straight path is the only way. It suggests that wandering can be a deliberate choice, a form of exploration. This applies to both external ...

The Fellowship of the Ring may be a huge success for Peter Jackson, but what would Tolkien have thought of it, asked this feature from our February 2002 issue.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' follows an ensemble cast of characters, ...

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Middle-earth is full of the fantastic, but it’s not all sunshine and roses. For all of the mystical Elves and cheery Hobbits, there are a lot of terrifying monsters that pop up throughout J.R.R.

After selling out earlier this week, The Complete History of Middle-earth: Collector's Box Set is back in stock at Amazon with a massive discount. The 5,440-page, three-book collector's set is on sale ...

Everyone loves "The Lord of the Rings." They make up a quarter of the top 12 movies of all time on IMDb's top 250 movie list, for goodness' sake. "The Hobbit" films are less grand but still ...

Haunted by the approach of another world war, the beloved fantasy author created a new story of Middle-earth that few people even knew about—until now The Radcliffe Camera, part of Oxford’s Bodleian ...