Sept. 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1666, the Great Fire of London began. It destroyed 13,000 houses in four days. In 1935, a hurricane hit the Florida Keys, killing more than 350 people. In ...

If you're a fan of the Peter Jackson's adaptation and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, you will fall in love with ...

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 ...

Beren and Lúthien, a story that Tolkien recounted in a chapter of his posthumously published The Silmarillion, was edited by his son Christopher Tolkien. According to BBC, the novel has been described ...

Most people are likely aware — at least vaguely — that J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was Catholic. Fewer, perhaps, know how seriously he took his faith, in a time ...

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. Yet long before he was the “father of ...

From Pelennor Fields to the Fall of Gondolin, these are the most exciting battles in J.R.R. Tolkien's expanded universe, ...

May 8—Douglas A. Anderson's notes opening the Mariner edition of "The Lord of the Rings" makes the argument that J.R.R. Tolkien's best-known work is erroneously called a trilogy when it is actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eliza Anderson, Deseret News People of faith have long been drawn to J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. According to J.D. Payne, showrunner of ...

(RNS) — The collection of letters and books has grown to become the Marion E. Wade Center, one of the foremost research centers not only on Lewis, but also Tolkien and five other British Christian ...