J.R.R. Tolkien, Map of Rohan, Gondor and Mordor, drawn so that Tolkien could accurately plot the action as he wrote book five of The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1948).

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 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's illustrations and maps for "The Hobbit," one of his best-loved works, are now collected in a new volume, "The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien." See a slideshow of images.

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 ...

These extraordinary images, as well as six letters, went under the hammer with Reeman Dansie of Colchester, Essex, in December and caused something of a sensation. There were 100 lots from Chandler’s ...

An unfinished manuscript that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth will be published in late August in the United Kingdom and late October in the United States, according to reports. Tolkien ...

J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien (1892-1973) was an Oxford University English writer and scholar. His works include The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), with more than 700 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lesson About Evil for Our Time. ... Paramount Pictures/Zuma Press/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly. When the Soviet Union sent half a million troops into Finland on Nov. 30, ...

The books go ever on and on. Forty years after his death at 81, works by J.R.R. Tolkien continue to appear. The latest, “The Fall of Arthur,” lists nine works published during his lifetime ...

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote more than just The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but his Middle-earth books weren't released in chronological order.

An unfinished manuscript that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth will be published in late August in the United Kingdom and late October in the United States, according to reports. Tolkien ...