“Almost worthless.” He had become a Bad Art Friend. They never truly reconciled. Yet “The Mythmakers” makes a powerful case that if Tolkien and Lewis had never met, they would never have ...

And while we don’t see much of it in the final moments of the episode, they neatly set up one of the most brutal sequences of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works: the sack of Eregion. Below, we get into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After all, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s storied lore, the only Valandil, at least of royal importance, is Isildur’s youngest son. Valandil Is a King in Tolkien’s Lore As we know from Tolkien’s ...