Daniel Grotta’s critical biography of J.R.R. Tolkein bears several distinctions. “J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth” from Running Press was the first biography of the author of “The Hobbit” ...

A trailer of the biography movie " TOLKIEN" depicting the life of JRR Tolkien, the creator of "The Lord of the Rings" was released. The fact that Tolkien, the parents of which died and orphaned, ...

From light romps to profound reads, a bumper crop of books tells us more about the maker of Middle-earth. For a warm portrait of the man and his work, see Clyde Kilby, Tolkien and the Silmarillion ...

We may know him best for giving us the world of Middle-earth, but J.R.R. Tolkien was a man of many talents. As an esteemed scholastic linguist, he gave an influential lecture at Oxford about the ...

John Hendrix’s magically illustrated biography tells the tale of one of literature’s greatest friendships. Show, don’t tell, say the masters of literature. But in “The Mythmakers: The Remarkable ...

Tom Shippey is the author of JRR Tolkien: Author of the Century, a companion to Tolkien's work and a spirited defence of fantasy writing, which puts Tolkien in the context of the legendary ...

The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary edited by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner Oxford University Press £12.99, pp256 In October 1916, a 24-year-old JRR ...

TOLKIEN - A BIOGRAPHY by Michael White. Published in hardback by Little Brown, £16.99. Now his masterpiece is on the big screen, Tokien's life is a hot topic. In his new biography, Michael White ...

First, a bit of movie history concerning films based on works by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. There was the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy (“The Fellowship of the Ring,” “The Two Towers,” and “The Return ...