In a 1968 interview, the BBC spoke to author JRR Tolkien about his experiences during World War One, how they had a profound effect and influenced his epic fantasy novel, Lord of the Rings.

While the northern one struggled ... Letter 226, J.R.R. Tolkien mentions that, although he doesn't believe his experience fighting in World War I influenced the actual plot of The Lord of the ...

Dissecting J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth ... of The Rest is History podcast — about how Tolkien's world strikingly mirrors our own, from war, to modernity, to greed, to the fight to save ...

Haunted by the approach of another world war ... would soon leave to serve in the war. Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Tolkien photogr. 6, fol. 1 / The Tolkien Trust 1992 In other words, in ...

Pictures The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim ... a novel of J.R.R. Tolkien's, but rather two pages from his Appendices, which lay out the last great stand of one of Rohan's most famed ...

A Tolkien nerd and a girl who has never seen a single “Lord of the Rings” movie walk into a theater to see “The Lord of The Rings: The War of the Rohirrim ... takes a step into the past of J.R.R.

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien ... the real world’s ambiguous terrain. To this, one might offer two related responses: First, the larger Tolkien legendarium ...

O.K., no one ... of J.R.R. Tolkien’s vision of human existence, in which the difference between villains and champions is far less than we might expect. In our own modern-day world of would ...

As a philologist, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy drew extensively from Nordic language and mythology when creating the world of Middle Earth, notes CU Boulder expert who ...