THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...

Then we get this truly baffling argument (with a subtle No True Scotsman in the way quotes around “fans” which is done repeatedly throughout the article) about Tolkien’s estate: These ...

What if I told you that the question of whether balrogs have wings at all has been vexing Tolkien scholars for decades? The source of the problem is that all of the language that Tolkien used to ...

The largest passenger ship ever built in the U.S., the SS United States shattered a record for the fastest transatlantic crossing by a passenger liner on its maiden voyage in 1952, The Associated ...

The USS Stewart, once called the "Ghost Ship of the Pacific," served on the front lines of World War II. It was stationed in Manila as part of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Fleet, according to a news ...

Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as Thorin wandered the Earth up to 42,000 years ago. Now a new study in the ...

The shipbuilding process for a cruise ship typically spans two to three years, encompassing concept development, construction, and outfitting. Ship components are often prefabricated off-site and ...

Here are a few of the storylines we think might come to pass in season 3 based on what we know from Tolkien’s work as well as the threads left hanging in the finale. Canonically speaking ...

While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films and TV shows are closer than you might imagine. The first book in J R R ...

The ship, which was scheduled to set sail on its round-the-world voyage May, was hampered by yet another delay when outstanding final “paperwork” meant it had to halt at around 11:30 p.m. on ...

The wreck of a US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been found off the coast of California by undersea investigators. The USS Stewart was deliberately sunk during a ...

The Department of Justice is suing the owner and operator of the container ship Dali, saying negligence and dangerous cost-cutting decisions led to the ship ramming into — and destroying ...