King Durin III sacrifices himself to a fiery monster in the Season 2 finale of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.' Inside the making of the 'creature of shadow and flame.' ...

In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, Smaug's most powerful weapon was his fire breath, and it drew from two surprising inspirations.

Sophie Harrison continues her series on Oxford alumni and their books, this time exploring the works of the author of Babel and Yellowface.

JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings ... The varsity served as a hospital for injured soldiers during World War I, and Tolkien spent six weeks here recuperating from trench fever when ...

J.R.R. Tolkien drew on many sources of inspiration to create Middle Earth, including his religious beliefs which shaped the ...

In a 1968 interview, the BBC spoke to author JRR Tolkien about his experiences ... writing like an "exorcism" of the horrors he saw in WW1. Trench fever was not the only way in which the war ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth mythology includes ... because by 1916 Britain was in the middle of World War I. Tolkien had already been in the army for a year following his graduation from ...

From 1920 to 1943, J.R.R. Tolkien, the novelist who would later ... Just before heading out to serve in World War I—where he was felled by trench fever, a nasty bacterial infection—Tolkien ...

not to mention Tolkien’s horrific experiences in the trenches of World War I, which challenged his faith and shaped his worldview immensely. J.R.R. Tolkien. Public domain Additionally ...