In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson's film adaptations, why was the leader of the Nazgûl called the ...

JRR Tolkien - full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - was an English writer, poet and academic. He is best known for his fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien is often ...

Tuesday September 2nd 2003 is the 30th anniversary of the death of JRR Tolkien. His parents both came from Birmingham but his father, Arthur, who was a bank clerk, moved to South Africa in the ...

Opening in UK cinemas on 3 May, Tolkien charts the relationship between the writer, played by Nicholas Hoult, and his wife and muse, Edith (Lily Collins), reports The Guardian. According to the ...

JRR Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin ... He now even has an adjective derived from his name - "Kafkaesque" means to have nightmarish or illogical qualities. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo became ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate has settled copyright infringement claims against Warner Bros. over merchandising rights to the author’s most famous works, “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.” LOS ...

The brief interviews with Oxford students that are dotted throughout reveal the full range of opinions ... until Edith's death in 1971. Tolkien had the name 'Luthien' engraved on her headstone ...