We're talking about the opening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson's film adaptation (Part 1) of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic ... read The Hobbit as a child and recall a little ...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, a date which yielded ... reading “The Lord of the Rings” aloud to kids two and three — this is the second time through ...

How did J.R.R. Tolkien create The Lord of the Rings ... His art also shows him having fun. Like a kid torching the edges of a fake treasure map, Tolkien drew facsimiles of documents, such as ...