Instead, his work as a philologist and professor of Anglo-Saxon and English at the University of Oxford fed the brilliantly detailed fantasy worlds saturated with myth that he created in "The Lord of ...

Head of the Anchorage Tolkien Society, Professor Gregory Hartley, stopped by the Alaska Public Media studios to talk about the legacy of Tolkien, the society's events and more. Don your cloak and grab ...

Check out Nia Kovalevski's character-driven imaginative realism.

The Bodleian Libraries’ exhibition, Treasured, offers a rare chance to encounter some of the most extraordinary books, manuscripts and items in its collections.

Italy’s Culture Ministry has opened a curious show dedicated to the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien — and perhaps a new front in the culture wars. It’s “beautiful.” Just ask the prime minister. By ...

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. Yet long before he was the “father of ...