Tolkien Calls This the Most Tragic Moment in The Lord of the Rings

According to Tolkien, a crucial moment concerning the tragic anti-hero Gollum shifted The Lord of the Rings' tone, even if it ...
Mental Floss

Watch This 1968 BBC Interview With J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien was many things: scholar, novelist, inventor of worlds, and reluctant idol. In this 1968 BBC documentary to rule them all, Tolkien gives a free-ranging ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien’ Review: Notes From Middle-earth

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...
Newsweek

‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Cast Talk Expanding Tolkien’s World

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Tolkien's work is beloved around the world, and so it was quite the ...