J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth — the world of The Lord of the Rings and now the new animated film The War of the Rohirrim — was born, first and foremost, from Tolkien’s intense and lifelong love for ...

The Three Holiday Ghosts of Taking Responsibility Books of 2024: A Year in Reading The year 2023 marked 50 years since the death of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, and 2024 will mark 70 years since the ...

Tragedy struck again in 1904, when Tolkien's mother was diagnosed with diabetes, which at the time was untreatable. By the end of the year she had died and Ronald and his brother were left orphaned.

JRRT A Study of JRR Tolkien is a 1992 documentary narrated ... JRR Tolkien and interviews with three of his children Priscilla John and Christopher It also includes interviews with Baillie Tolkien ...

From Frodo to Harry Potter, literary heroes have resembled the atypical protagonist that lived in a hole in the ground.