Morgoth was The Lord of the Rings' villain long before Sauron, and he featured in the movies in a way, but not as Tolkien ...

MUNCIE, IN — The Ball State University campus and the greater Muncie community have through the end of July to visit a ...

Tolkien’s creative genius ... to the almost abstract fantasy drawings that he made independently of Middle-earth in a sketchbook he called The Book of Ishness.

Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set releases June 10 and will be followed up by gorgeous new editions of The Great Tales of ...

It will feature a gallery of 50 paintings, maps, and drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. “Since it was first published in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has become a timeless classic ...

J. R. R. Tolkien was adamant that The Lord of the Rings was not an allegory, but this did not preclude him from drawing upon his life experiences when writing his fantasy epics; he made a ...

“When he saw people saying a work was allegorical, he also saw them reducing it,” she says. “Tolkien wanted his work … to be appreciated as art, as something in and of itself. And many times, in his ...

Alan Lee was the artist responsible for producing the concept art for Peter Jackson’s film trilogy and has since lent his talents to illustrating Tolkien’s other works. While the illustrations ...

The long reign of the Byzantines, Tolkien’s letters, Fitzgerald’s swan song, deadly gardens and more. The present collection, drawing on material originally assembled by Humphrey Carpenter (d.

Edited by Brian Sibley, this gorgeous new hardcover tells the story of Middle-earth’s Second Age, drawing together many of Tolkien’s writings and ordering them in a way that helps make sense ...

learning Elvish languages and envisioning Middle-earth through fan art, poetry and fiction. (As a scholar of Tolkien’s works, I get regular requests to proofread tattoos that use Tolkien’s ...