'Lord of the Rings' mysteries from the film trilogy and Tolkien's books

Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and even Tolkien himself left us with more than a few narrative mysteries to ...
Comicbook.com

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien Revised With 150 Additional Letters

HarperCollins has been busy refreshing their J.R.R. Tolkien offerings with spectacular illustrated editions of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. They also released The Fall of Numenor, which ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien’ Review: Notes From Middle-earth

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 ...
America Magazine

‘The Rings of Power’ stays true to Tolkien’s Catholic vision

When J. R. R. Tolkien first set out to write The Lord of the Rings, he did so without intending for it to be seen in any way as a Catholic or religious book. As revealed in The Letters of J. R. R.
Polygon

J.R.R. Tolkien was fine with leaving War of the Rohirrim’s story untold

For Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, screenwriter Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Fran Walsh took on the task of translating three expansive novels into three live-action movies. With the ...
The Conversation

First publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s collected poems offers new insights into the Lord of the Rings author’s personality

Tom Emanuel receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). 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 ...
The New York Times

How Tolkien and Lewis Re-enchanted a War-Weary World

A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course. From “The Mythmakers.”Credit...John Hendrix Supported ...