How The Lord of the Rings lore helps explain the mysterious tech company.

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...

The Fall of Gondolin is considered one of Tolkien's Lost Tales, and one scene in particular may feel familiar. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author ...

"We are committed to keeping his stories alive for generations to come," the Tolkien Estate said in a statement on Wednesday. By Lily Ford London-based agency Curtis Brown Heritage has welcomed the ...

This year’s annual Tolkien Society seminar will pay “more critical attention than ever” to diversity issues, according to an announcement by the literary charity. Academics and non-academics alike ...

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If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. Yet long before he was the “father of ...

It’s hard to imagine a world without Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, but we might be living in it if it weren’t for J.R.R. Tolkien. The author is widely credited with giving birth to the modern ...

One does not simply launch a “Lord of the Rings”-themed cryptocurrency … The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien has blocked a crypto called “JRR Token” that rolled out last August, which drew its name from the ...