In an interview, Tolkien, while not specifically characterizing the Jews as warlike, nonetheless spoke to an explicit connection with biblical characterizations of the Jews, with the biblical ...

Though Tolkien said he “didn’t intend” to make the Dwarves Jewish initially, ... “I do think of the ‘Dwarves’ like Jews,” Tolkien wrote in a 1955 letter to the novelist Naomi ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Ringverse is one of the better-known parts of the author's legendarium. You know what we're talking about -- the one that starts "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky ...

In the letter of July 24 1953, Tolkien says: “Having taken great pains to use the form dwarves throughout the book, I take it hard to find that this has been gratuitously altered to dwarfs from ...