In an early plot outline for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn needed to kill a member of the Fellowship who ...

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien contains much of Tolkien's mail correspondence, including with Allen & Unwin. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring movie accepted and popularized the ...

Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Two Towers is now available as a standalone 4K Blu-ray, and it's joined by a reprint of ...

Nearly a decade after wrapping up his first trilogy of Tolkien adaptations ... eponymous group in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, with the sole purpose of destroying it.

Why Did J.R.R ... in Tolkien’s world with no origin. No one knows where he comes from or what exactly he is. Little is known about Bombadil, but The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the ...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien ... mutual corruption by the ring. I’ve offered this defense of moral complexity in Tolkien in this newsletter before ...

From the Shire to Mount Doom, Frodo’s path was mapped with the Church calendar in mind — a quiet testament to Tolkien’s Catholic imagination. Illustration of Mary and Gabriel from Agostino ...

Joshua Hren, editor of Wiseblood Books and author of Middle-Earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy, is less effusive but shares Markos’ view that the ...

Now, Tolkein’s legions of fans can enjoy both at once by playing their way through the first book of his trilogy, working together, in The Fellowship of the Ring ... fit for Tolkien’s universe ...

THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...