"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Frodo Baggins quickly discovers that heading to Mordor alone in The Lord of the Rings trilogy is not ...

Tolkien relished his weekly meetings with this club of remarkable friends. Thursday evenings in Lewis’s Magdalen College rooms and Tuesdays for lunch at the Eagle and Child public house, Tolkien ...

Inklings Bookshop is proudly named after the literary discussion group that informally met at Oxford University in the 1930s and ’40s to talk about their latest work and share ideas. This group ...

As a teen, authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien opened up worlds for me that were both fantastic and faith-filled. I wouldn’t come to understand the deeper Catholic motifs in The Lord of the Rings ...

If you wanted to write a fantasy novel in the early 20th century, then Studley Priory was the place to be. For it is here ...

Last Friday, Sept. 2, was the 49th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien at the age of 81. By coincidence, this past weekend also marked the release of the first two episodes of a ...

Joseph Loconte drops by to talk about his new book, The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945. He and Chris discuss the friendship between Tolkien ...

Fantasy novel enthusiasts wish to turn the house of famed Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien in Oxford, where he wrote "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit," into a meeting place for writers, ...

Project Northmoor is fundraising to turn the place where the Catholic author wrote ‘The Lord of the Rings’ into a center for creating faith-inspired fantasy. Fantasy novel enthusiasts wish to turn the ...