As a teen, authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien opened up worlds for me that ... creates tension between the friends. Lewis’ later popularity, due to his popular World War II radio broadcasts ...

Hobbit, human, or Maiar alike — everyone can be a hero in Middle-earth, and characters like Frodo, Aragorn, and Gandalf prove ...

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, wrote that Faramir was the character from Middle-earth who was the ...

The real Gamgee actually contacted J.R.R. Tolkien upon learning of the fictitious ... a man from a borough of South London, learned from friends and family that his name appeared during a 1955 ...

Tolkien once had a vision of this structure ... a biography of the Renaissance humanist Thomas More, written by his friend R.W. Chambers. More, a counselor to Henry VIII, and lord chancellor ...

J.R.R. Tolkien is easily one of the greatest writers in history, perhaps the greatest fantasy writer of all time. The history he created spans literally thousands of years, with layers and layers ...

Fantasy and science-fiction authors mostly come and go, but Tolkien has endured. Why is this so? What is different about him? For answers, we would do well to look at the recent work of Holly ...