A rare first edition of 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien has fetched USD 57,000 at auction in in Southwest England. Details ...

One of J. R. R. Tolkien's lesser-known texts, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, revealed the existence of some unusual ...

Metal gates created by the great-nephew of JRR Tolkien for a Wolverhampton nature reserve have been restored "to their former ...

In a newspaper interview Tolkien said the Shire was "inspired by a few cherished square miles of actual countryside at ...

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Tolkien’s maps, eight of which appear in the exhibition, are about more than verisimilitude. They are meant to remind the reader that the stories are visiting only a small part of the available ...

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Tolkien began work on "The Silmarillion" as early as 1917 when, as a British officer stationed in France during World War I, he was laid up in a military field hospital with trench fever.