Sir Ian McKellen knows how to work an audience. At a convention for fantasy fiction fans last August, he all but confirmed ...

A new website from the Tolkien estate includes some previously unpublished artwork by the fantasy author. J.R.R. Tolkien, Mithrim (1920s), detail. This pastel landscape of Lake Mithrim in the land of ...

Like so many people, I’ve read The Lord of the Rings and watched the movies and appreciated the elaborate world-building of J ...

An overlooked line from the novel version of The Lord of the Rings revealed a tragic aspect of Aragorn's personality.

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 ...

BOSTON — In just a few days, Tolkienites around the world will flock to movie theaters for the second installment of Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” trilogy, called “The Desolation of Smaug.” As with its ...

One of the most emblematic museums in the city of Rome, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, is currently hosting an exhibition on the life of the writer J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of ...

The work of J.R.R. Tolkien is an astoundingly detailed achievement unmatched by any other fantasy author in history. It’s too bad that the biopic Tolkien doesn’t even have half the passion that the ...

When most people read J.R.R. Tolkien, they get swept up in mythical worlds of hobbits and elves, harrowing journeys in fantastical lands and epic battles of good and evil. But Walter Judd says he got ...

Today's resolution of the litigation between New Line Cinema and the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien (right) over "The Lord of the Rings” trilogy is shaping up as one of the biggest profit ...

It’s been 10 years since an Italian priest called for the cause for J. R. R. Tolkien’s canonization to be initiated. Back in 2015, Father Daniele Ercoli of Turin asked Archbishop Bernard Longley of ...