While the war raged on a country away, Tolkien and his wife, Edith, took respite from the constant conflict in a peaceful "woodland glade" in Yorkshire. Edith began to dance for Tolkien among the ...

Two sculptures celebrating the legacy of JRR Tolkien have been unveiled in a village that helped inspire one of his stories.

Statues of an incident that inspired the author JRR Tolkien will be unveiled in an East Yorkshire village next month. The wooden sculptures depict the writer's wife Edith dancing in a nearby wood ...

World War I had a profound impact on the young author. He joined the military along with several of his friends in 1915, and was deployed to Europe a year later, where he was part of the Battle of ...

Tolkien and his wife Edith married in 1916, and honeymooned in the Somerset village of Clevedon. While they were there, they paid a visit to one of the most jaw-dropping landscapes in Britain ...

Tolkien and his wife, Edith, in a 1940 family photo. Their sons Christopher and Michael (flanking their sister Priscilla) would soon leave to serve in the war. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries ...

Húrin was finally released by Morgoth, found his wife Morwen dying ... tragic deaths by suicide of several characters. Although Tolkien does not mention Arthurian legend in his letter, Thomas ...

Tickets are on offer to the grand unveiling of two new wooden sculptures paying tribute to JRR Tolkien's connection ... and The Lord Of The Rings - and his wife, Edith, in a cherished moment ...

Bilbo encounters goblins, Wargs and a host of other creatures, including Gollum and his precious ring. The Hobbit sets up the story line for Tolkien's more complex Lord of the Rings, which stars ...

Alexi Sargeant is a writer and theater maker, who recently co-created with his wife a Tolkien-inspired game called “Back Again From the Broken Land.” And Stefano Rebeggiani is a professor of ...