The year 2023 marked 50 years since the death of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, and 2024 will mark 70 years since the publication of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, which holds the title of ...

To this day, it remains a landmark series that revitalized fantasy in pop culture and introducting J.R.R. Tolkien to a new generation ... But his actor, John Rhys-Davies, is over six feet tall.

His images have been collected in a new book, Market Day. The 'holy grail' of JRR Tolkien's letters are up for sale ... An exclusive Rebus short story for Country Life at Christmas, by Ian Rankin John ...

reproductions of Tolkien’s own paintings, illustrations from various editions of his books by Pauline Baynes, Alan Lee, John Howe and others, in addition to contemporary and archival photos.

A watercolor of the scene. The final illustration in the first edition, which had 10 black-and-white pictures, two maps, and binding and dust jacket designed by Tolkien. The final dust jacket was ...

Like his hobbit heroes Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, J.R.R. Tolkien got by with a lot of help from his friends. As much as fellowship is central to the influential British writer’s works “The ...

Thanks to a USA Today exclusive, we’ve gotten a glimpse at some images from the upcoming movie which will see Tolkien through his formative years and during World War I. Harry Gilby (Just ...

He had illustrated a number of Tolkien calendars in the 1980s and 90s ... He and Lee would draw the images and then redraw after consulting with Jackson. “Sometimes one drawing can be ...