It's pronounced Tol-keen, apparently. Maybe you're enough of a fan to already know how to say the Lord of the Rings author's name. Maybe you saw the Peter Jackson movies or the new Prime Video series ...

“A real taste for fairy-stories was wakened by philology on the threshold of manhood,” Tolkien wrote, “and quickened to full life by war.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 1892 and thus was in ...

JRR Tolkien was the author of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit", two of the most beloved fantasy books of all time. But long before he became a fantasy icon, Tolkien was a young British officer ...

A British soldier began writing "The Fall of Gondolin" while in a hospital bed, stricken by "trench disease" from the lethal front lines of World War I. A German soldier later bemoaned the "lice, rats ...

The phrase “no man’s land” conjures up the zone between opposing trenches on the Western Front of World War I. “No Man’s Land” is also the title of Simon Tolkien’s barnburner of a novel, which, ...

The Middle-earth author spent some imaginary time in the North Pole for an audience of just four people: his children.

This article, 'Tolkien' Review: 'Lord of the Rings' Biopic Reveals WWI Horror of Middle-Earth, originally appeared on CNET.com. It's pronounced Tol-keen, apparently. Maybe you're enough of a fan to ...