"Our system obliges us to elevate to office precisely those persons who have the ego-besotted effrontery to ask us to do so; it is rather like being compelled to cede the steering wheel to the ...

Poetically, Tolkien’s long struggle to realize his vision — the self-doubt that led to long pauses in composition, his frustrations with publishers and his general inability to be satisfied enough ...

“The Rings of Power,” the new and outrageously expensive prequel to J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” saga, opens slowly. Amazon, perhaps the only corporation on earth that can throw this ...

Last Friday, Sept. 2, was the 49th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien at the age of 81. By coincidence, this past weekend also marked the release of the first two episodes of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Dobson is a full-time luxury travel writer based in Italy. I made a plan to journey into Middle Earth to follow in the ...

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 ...

Curtis Brown will rep the literary estate of J.R.R. Tolkien going forwards. A deal between Curtis Brown Heritage and Tolkien Estate, which is the custodian of the the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit ...