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's The Fall of Gondolin, which the author described as "the first real story" set in Middle-earth, is to be published as a stand-alone book for the first time. The book charts the story ...

It grotesquely misunderstands the man and his work JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth is an inexhaustible resource for artists good and bad. There is Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning trilogy Lord of the ...

JRR Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, is the latest cultural icon to find himself in the Evil Genius hotseat, with comedians Thanyia Moore, Lauren Pattison and Pierre Novellie ...