J. R. R. Tolkien was adamant that The Lord of the Rings was not an allegory, but this did not preclude him from drawing upon his life experiences when writing his fantasy epics; he made a ...

Christopher Tolkien, the son of "The Lord of the Rings" author J. R. R. Tolkien ... 1924. He was a military veteran, serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He later became a lecturer ...

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote several stories set in Middle-earth along with The Lord of the Rings, each taking place at different points in this fictional universe's timeline. Of course, with many of ...

In his high-fantasy novels, British author J.R.R. Tolkien combined his academic training in languages and his love of storytelling to create Middle-earth, a fictional continent populated by ...

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is perhaps the most influential fantasy narrative of the past century. But few things ...

The family of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien have publicly disowned an upcoming biopic about his life. According to the film’s makers, it explores “the formative years of the renowned ...

How did J.R.R. Tolkien create The Lord of the Rings? The simple answer is that he wrote it. He sat down in a chair in 1937 and spent more than a dozen years working on what remains a masterwork of ...

The publication of “The Fall of Gondolin,” at long last, represents the conclusion of a loose trilogy set in the Elder Days of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional realm of Middle-earth. As with the ...