If you’re interested in seeing more of Tolkien’s art, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull’s new book, The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, features more than 100 pieces of Hobbit art ...

More than 100 paintings and illustrations by Tolkien are also available to peruse in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, a 1995 catalogue compiled by Tolkien researchers Wayne G. Hammond and ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Gardens of the Merking’s Palace, an illustration for his novella Roverandom, written in 1925 and published in 1998. Courtesy of the Tolkien Trust. J.R.R. Tolkien, dust jacket ...

For his part, Tolkien famously disliked allegory, which he believed reduced a work to being derivative, according to Raggio. “When he saw people saying a work was allegorical, he also saw them ...

J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien (1892-1973) was an Oxford University English writer and scholar. His works include The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), with more than 700 ...

The updated edition of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien includes an additional 150 letters that were originally omitted to deliver a book that was deemed a “publishable length” in 1981.

Baltimore Museum of Art Does Another Ho-Hum Race Show. Saying Goodbye to Julia Alexander. ... J. R. R. Tolkien enjoys a pipe in his study at Merton College, Oxford, December 2, 1955.

America can be divided into two groups nowadays. Forget donkey vs. elephant. For untold millions, Dec. 14 marks a day of pop culture rapture. In breathless anticipation, devotees are counting down ...