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 ...

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 ...

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 ...