When he was crafting The Silmarillion before and after The Lord of the Rings, which his son, Christopher Tolkien, would finish after his death, he included further details about characters like ...

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, wrote that Faramir was the character from Middle-earth who was the most similar to himself.

Fantasy and science-fiction authors mostly come and go, but Tolkien has endured. Why is this so? What is different about him? For answers, we would do well to look at the recent work of Holly ...