“A real taste for fairy-stories was wakened by philology on the threshold of manhood,” Tolkien wrote, “and quickened to full life by war.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 1892 and thus was in ...

In a 1968 interview, the BBC spoke to author JRR Tolkien about his experiences during World War One, how they had a profound effect and influenced his epic fantasy novel, Lord of the Rings. "Stories – ...

It's pronounced Tol-keen, apparently. Maybe you're enough of a fan to already know how to say the Lord of the Rings author's name. Maybe you saw the Peter Jackson movies or the new Prime Video series ...

The phrase “no man’s land” conjures up the zone between opposing trenches on the Western Front of World War I. “No Man’s Land” is also the title of Simon Tolkien’s barnburner of a novel, which, ...

For Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, screenwriter Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Fran Walsh took on the task of translating three expansive novels into three live-action movies. With the ...

This article, 'Tolkien' Review: 'Lord of the Rings' Biopic Reveals WWI Horror of Middle-Earth, originally appeared on CNET.com. It's pronounced Tol-keen, apparently. Maybe you're enough of a fan to ...