JRR Tolkien has long been the gold-standard of epic fantasy, and the quality of Hollywood's adaptations of his stories speak ...

It’s hard to imagine a world without Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, but we might be living in it if it weren’t for J.R.R. Tolkien. The author is widely credited with giving birth to the modern ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Following the massively successful release of new illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings ...

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 ...

For many of us, it began with a hole - a hobbit hole. But for J.R.R. Tolkien, he started elsewhere. Born on Jan. 3, 1892, in South Africa, Tolkien had a difficult childhood. While he may be best known ...

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," wrote J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973). And so, the story about the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, and Middle-earth, began. The story behind that story is now the ...

Christopher Tolkien just dropped his pants and took a big dump on Peter Jackson. In his first ever press interview Christopher tells Le Monde (Via World Crunch) that his family has no interest in ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is now ...

Kendall Myers is a Senior Author with Collider. As part of the TV and Movies Features team, she writes about some of the most popular releases before, during, and after they premiere. In three years, ...

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.