‘The War for Middle-earth’ Review: A Faith in Literature

World War II led C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to infuse their early experiments in fantasy with a sense of moral urgency.

Quote of the day from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: 'All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us'

The quote “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” from J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings ...
The Conversation

First publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s collected poems offers new insights into the Lord of the Rings author’s personality

Tom Emanuel receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and ...
Variety

Curtis Brown Signs ‘Lord of the Rings’ Creator J.R.R. Tolkien’s Literary Estate

Curtis Brown have signed the J.R.R. Tolkien literary estate under their Curtis Brown Heritage banner. Curtis Brown Heritage, which launched in 2016 with the objective of managing some of the most ...
National Catholic Register

New Book Explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholic Faith and How it Imbued His Work

Most people are likely aware — at least vaguely — that J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was Catholic. Fewer, perhaps, know how seriously he took his faith, in a time ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien’ Review: Notes From Middle-earth

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...