They have also edited previous works by Tolkien, including the short poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (2014). Between them, Hammond and Scull have precisely the obsessive eye for ...

A new collection of letters will shed light on the personality of one of the world’s literary giants, JRR Tolkien. The Lord of the Ringsand The Hobbitauthor is credited as being one of the ...

From the Shire to Mount Doom, Frodo’s path was mapped with the Church calendar in mind — a quiet testament to Tolkien’s Catholic imagination. Illustration of Mary and Gabriel from Agostino ...

John Ezard meets with J. R. R. Tolkien at his home, walking with him through the Oxford locations that he loves while hearing the author's own views about his wildly successful high-fantasy novels.

As a teen, authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien opened up worlds for me that were both fantastic and faith-filled. I wouldn’t come to understand the deeper Catholic motifs in The Lord of the ...

JRR Tolkien spent almost 18 months in Hull and East Yorkshire recovering from trench fever after World War One. The landscape of the area is said to have been the influence of some of his stories ...