The Hobbit had already been published when J.R.R. Tolkien decided to rewrite a chapter - just to a fix a plot hole created by The Lord of the Rings.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dark, malevolent force is gathering on the edge of Middle-earth. It’s more poisonous than the Witch-King of Angmar. More toxic ...

Many television shows have paid tribute to J. R.R. Tolkien's gene-defining fantasy epic and the movies they inspired.

For decades, The Lord of the Rings sat on a strange pedestal in Hollywood. Revered, feared, and endlessly discussed, but ...

World War II led C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to infuse their early experiments in fantasy with a sense of moral urgency.

Most people are likely aware — at least vaguely — that J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was Catholic. Fewer, perhaps, know how seriously he took his faith, in a time ...

Ablaze sent a press release to promote their "new graphic novel" biography of J. R. R. Tolkien's life – but it was originally published in French in 2019 by Soleil. Tolkien: Lightning Up The Darkness, ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, born in 1892 and passing in 1973, was an English writer, poet, and academic, most famous for his high fantasy works "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. These seminal ...