Royd Tolkein is The Hobbit writer JRR Tolkien’s great-grandson. He talks to Metro about what it was like to appear in Return Of The King. The first proper realisation of the family name was when ...

Stanley Royd used to have its own chapel on the grounds but that burned down in 2012. The bell tower of the former “lunatic asylum” looms over what are now state-of-the-art flats. A taxi ...