J. R. R. Tolkien

 OR The Harry Potter and Twilight series prove the strong appeal of fantasy, as do perennials such as JRR Tolkien. (Novels written in the Tolkien style are known as high fantasy.) "I think a lot of it has to do with Hollywood, too," Harrison said. ...

 France JRR Tolkien : You saw the movies, right ? All you need to know is there's no dwarf tossing in the book and no Tom Bombadil in the movies. Tom Bombadil is a sort of immortal hippy. For extra credit, mention that the loneliness of the Ents makes you sad.

 UK Transpose these tales of evil forests, bloody battles and vengeful wizards to the 21st century and you've got a social commentary JRR Tolkien would be proud of. Duly snapped up by the ever erudite This Is Music, Invasions' debut album The Master ...

 FL The hiatus from school gives Jenna extra time to think about what she wants to do for a career. For now, she's still interested in linguistics. She'd also like to be a writer. Maybe she'll write fantasy novels, like her favorite author, JRR Tolkien.

 ND He also quoted his favorite author, JRR Tolkien: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” After each graduate was presented with a diploma, the students moved their tassels to signify they had graduated, ...

Media Newswire (press release), NY The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien. Presented by the Théâtre Sans Fil. 1:30 pm Feb. 20. Loeb Playhouse. Tickets are $18 for the general public and $12 for students. * "An Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen. Presented by Aquila Theatre Company. 7:30 pm Feb. ...

DELVING into her family's history led to a Gloucester woman discovering she is related to famous author JRR Tolkien. Sue Stafford learned of the link to the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings, who died in 1973, after she researched her ...

By MARJORIE BURNS By JRR Tolkien JRR Tolkien (1892-1973), famous for “Lord of the Rings,” was an Oxford philologist whose expertise in Old Germanic languages included Old Norse (the language spoken by the settlers of Iceland) and Old English (also ...

 CA I'm tired of every played-out trope that every game designer ever stole from JRR Tolkien, beat to death, and sucked the life from. So when I first heard about The Agency I was primed to love it, No one in this game has a magic ring or a +3 Staff of ...

I am, as Tolkien said of his own relationship to the land of Faerie, “a wandering explorer (or trespasser) in the land, full of wonder but not of information.” [JRR Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories"] Especially I am attracted to the religious art. ...

 United States I've never been a big Tolkien fan—nothing against old JRR, whom my eleven-year-old son and his pals love, as do plenty of my own more senior friends. It's just that for some reason my mental immune system had rejected “The Lord of the Rings” every time ...

 UK The Arts Council will be asked to come to the rescue of Birmingham's controversial JRR Tolkien statue after plans to raise money from fans of the author were derailed by the credit crunch. A scheme to auction off leaves to hang from the 20ft tree which ...

 UK FANTASY fans had a magical weekend in a Birmingham suburb transformed into a scene from Middle Earth to celebrate author JRR Tolkien. About 5000 of them went along to the tenth Middle Earth Weekend at Sarehole Mill, in Hall Green, a former childhood ...

 OR It's hardly the storybook ending JRR Tolkien might have written for a project that symbolized the extremes of Bend's legendary boom. But central Oregon has become the Middle Earth of unemployment -- at 17 percent, Bend suffers the second-highest rate ...

The author himself is not a JRR Tolkien fan (he's criticized Tolkien's "Wagnerian pomposity") and finished only two Harry Potter books before he put the series aside ("I didn't massively enjoy them," he says). But he feels that fantastic tales are a ...

 WI novel by JRR Tolkien features sword fighting, choreographed by combat expert, Christopher Elst of Milwaukee; a spooky spider dance, choreographed by Cari Jaeger of Manitowoc; and a setting of Middle Earth designed by Tony Olson of Sheboygan. ...

I was in South Africa during the war training as an RAF pilot, and during that time my father wrote to me many long letters, all of which reached me, and of which a number have been published in The Letters of JRR Tolkien. In many of these letters he ...

Speculating about what his father, who died in 1973 aged 81, would have made of his immense popularity today – over 150m copies of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have sold worldwide – Tolkien said he "might have been in turns delighted, charmed, ...

Tolkien, JRR The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. May 2009. 377p. ed. by Christopher Tolkien. illus. ISBN 978-0-547-27342-6. $26. LIT Yet another posthumous title by Tolkien (between writing this much and teaching full time when did he sleep? ...

 NY It is in no way affiliated with, or sponsored or approved, by Tolkien Enterprises, the heirs or estate of JRR Tolkien, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. or any of their repective affiliates or licensees. ...

 United Kingdom If his film version of The Lord of the Rings trilogy had not been so successful there is no way these two 'lays', probably written at Oxford in the Thirties, would have seen the light of day. This is no less than the 12th work by JRR Tolkien to be ...

 CA - Connie Ogle The Ugly Truth: In what has to be a fantasy greater than anything JRR Tolkien dreamed up, Katherine Heigl (27 Dresses) is a TV producer unable to find a man. Gerard Butler shows up as a cynic whose fate clearly is to relieve her of her singlehood. ...

 New Zealand Ian Collier of The Tolkien Society writes: I thought that you'd be interested in the news about this year's Middle-earth weekend (formerly the Tolkien Weekend) event at Sarehole Mill. Like TORN the event is celebrating its 10th anniversary so this one ...

 MA Much as I went into The Fellowship of the Ring caring more about Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen than I ever could about JRR Tolkien, my interest in X-Men Origins: Wolverine stems from the involvement of Gavin Hood and Hugh Jackman, and not from the ...

 Australia I am afraid the geographic board are no fun when it comes to Tolkien," it stated. Motor camp manager Aaron Nicholson, who made the request, was even more frustrated, saying he felt New Zealand politicians had a "strangely negative attitude" towards ...

Based on the classic JRR Tolkien novel, the two "The Hobbit" movies are co-written by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson who has directed Tolkien's other novel adaptation, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The first "Hobbit" film is scheduled ...

  Canada JRR Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, a previously unpublished narrative poem inspired by the Viking legends, will be released May 5 by HarperCollins Canada. Tolkien, who died in 1973, began the work before the publication of The Hobbit in ...

 CT The Lord of the Rings films have been completed for a few years now and Hollywood is still figuring out a way to milk the Tolkien franchise for everything it's worth.Immediately after the Lord of The Rings was completed, there was talk about adapting ...

By Colin Brennan While the high level area "The Rift" never made it into the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, it is another great example of how Turbine was able to expand the lore of The Lord of the Rings without treading on his toes and ripping apart the world. It is also the subject of the exploring Middle-Earth colu...

JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an epic tale about an evil ring that falls into the hands of a hobbit named Frodo Baggins (the hobbits are a fictional race of miniature people invented by the author). Aided by three other hobbits, ... The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Review PALGN

By Travis Prinzi Today is J.R.R. Tolkien’s 117th birthday.  Since the theme here has been fairy tales lately, here are a couple of Tolkien quotes that get to the heart of it. On Myth: “History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.”   ~ “On Fairy-Stories”

By MrCere While not strictly “a Tolkien book,” there is definitely a strong Middle-earth presence at the end of the volume. After talking dragons in broad terms with consideration of mythology and cosmic dragons, Howe gets more personal with a look at specific monsters and heroes like Beowulf, Fa...

C. S. Lewis, author of The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia, was a contemporary and friend of J. R. R. Tolkien. He was also an atheist who came to Christianity, in his own words, “kicking and screaming”, who became one of its strongest apologists.

Disclaimer: If this fic doesn’t prove I am not Tolkien, I’m not sure what would. Written for the Middle-earth Express Prompt #84: Entertainment WARNING: This short story contains sexual innuendo and alludes to a male’s reaction to ...

Disclaimer: I don’t own anything J.R.R. Tolkien wrote. King Durin, Celebrimbor and Narvi are his characters, not mine. The story is set in ca. 750 Second Age. Speak, Friend and Enter Narvi was just taking his apron off after a long day ...

Disclaimer: I don’t own anything J.R.R. Tolkien wrote whatsoever. The members of the band are my only original creations. This fic is written as a response to the challenge ”A Salute to Jules”. It is very late in coming, but hey, ...

Disclaimer: I do not own anything J.R.R. Tolkien wrote whatsoever. The characters in this story are his creations. Chapter 1: The Departure of Finrod The Man was haggard and his clothes were tattered, but he looked noble nonetheless as ...

By The Ultimate FanFic Challenge! Title: News Fandom: J. R. R. Tolkien Characters: Eärendil, Finarfin Prompt: 083 - And Word Count: 249 Rating: G Summary: The first meeting between the King of the Noldor in Aman and the newly arrived messenger from Middle-earth. ...

By Carolyn Koo Launched by Michael Regina, William Thomas, Erica Challis and Pirrotta in anticipation of The Lord of the Rings films (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King), the site's traffic reached a peak in early 2003, putting the site among the top 1,000 in the world. Ho...

When Tolkien created the mythical world of Middle-earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Jack was one of his most enthusiastic fans. He had encouraged Tolkien to keep writing over the years – unlike Jack, Tolkien was a slow, painstaking writer. Jack had praised Tolkien’s writing lav...

By Mike Fahey WESTWOOD, MA - February 20, 2008 - Turbine, Inc. announced today that in the wake of the global success of The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, named the 2007 PC Game of the Year*, it has reached an agreement with Tolkien Enterprises to extend it's license to develop Massively M...

By Alex Billington Talk about kicking New Line when they're already down! The Tolkein Trust, a British charity that manages the estate of legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien, and publisher HarperCollins decided to file a lawsuit against New Line Cinema earlier today for $150 million. Their claim is that they hav...

By listenerservices@wnyc.org (Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich) It might seem hyperbole to claim, as many Wagnerites do, that The Ring Cycle is "The Greatest Work of Art Ever." But the grandeur and power of this monumental work have permeated our culture from Star Wars to Bugs Bunny to J.R.R. Tolkien.

By jwalker@reason.com (Jesse Walker) Completely different, more human-like, are Tolkien's characters....There are men in The Lord of the Rings, to be sure, but it is the hobbits who resemble real humans the most -- they are rather clumsy, neither exceptionally smart, stout, nor courageous, but good, sociable, faithful and ge...

The Lord of the Rings," the most expensive production in West End history, opened to a standing ovation from its audience, and mixed reviews from the critics, with some praising it as brilliant and a wonder, and others calling it "a thumping great flop" and corny. The stage adaptation of J.R....

By Asgard The Children of Hurin is an assemblage of Tolkien's assorted writings, put together in novel format by son Christopher. The story was begun by JRR Tolkien in 1918, but never assembled as a complete novel. Christopher Tolkien has organized the work into novel format without altering his fa...

In May 1973, I received a letter from one of my heroes, J.R.R. Tolkien. Like many another young fan, I had written to him begging to know when we could expect to see "The Silmarillion." To most readers at that time, this was just a title referred to in the appendices of "The Lord of the Rings." It could...

As someone who cut my literary teeth on J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, Gene Wolfe, and Robert E. Howard, I don't like most of the stuff that lands in the sci-fi/fantasy ghetto at the local Books-A-Million. For one thing, I've noticed that the back covers of many fantasy novels claim that the...

The Children of Hurin" by J. R. R. TolkienBook review by AP writer Bruce DeSilva(April 17, 2007) -- Six thousand years before the Fellowship of the Ring, long before anyone had even seen a Hobbit, the elves and men of Middle-earth quaked at the power of the dark lord...

By Gordon Hauptfleisch Begun in 1918, The Children of Hurin -- the first complete J.R.R. Tolkien work since the publication of The Silmarillion in 1977 -- was one of three “Great Tales” the author worked on throughout his life, though he never realized his objective in seeing it published. Now reconstructed by Chri...