The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit author was also a gifted illustrator, creating abstract and subtly beautiful works of art The film series of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit is unlikely to come anywhere near ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of the trilogy adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. It concerns an imaginary world in which unlikely heroes undertake a quest ...

Should the creator of the Lord of the Rings be acknowledged as the foremost author of the twentieth century? Until recently it hadn’t dawned on me that Tolkien’s books are not considered literature in ...

The great English author, JRR Tolkien, was born on Jan 3, 1892. Although George MacDonald is often considered the creator of modern fantasy, the biggest and most popular influence on the genre is JRR ...

JRR Tolkien's first installment of 'The Lord of the Rings', 'Fellowship of the Ring', was published 69 years ago. It seems fitting to cast a light on Tolkien’s little known art practice which shaped ...

In January 1997, reporter Susan Jeffreys of the (London) Sunday Times informed a colleague that J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy “The Lord of the Rings” had been voted the greatest book of the 20th ...

For those interested in J.R.R. Tolkien's sources comes Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy, edited by Douglas A. Anderson (The Annotated Hobbit), which collects 22 classic stories by ...

Each morning, I fire up my laptop and gaze into Hobbiton, a digital landscape inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Trees cast speckled shadows on the grass, and green hills sprout ...