J. R. R. Tolkien

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...