J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series comprises some of the most influential fantasy tales ever told. There have been plenty of video game adaptations since the early 1980s, and in recent ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring hit theaters 25 years ago, beginning a saga that would span several decades and two different trilogies. To celebrate the impressive milestone, ...

Generations of readers have fallen in love with the fantasy novels of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, in part for the reprieve they offer from the dreary and mundane. But these tales offer something ...

"The middle class is shrinking" might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to justify nearly all government interventions, from tariffs to minimum-wage hikes to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “The middle class is shrinking” might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to ...

We’re pleased to report the American middle class is indeed “hollowing out”—because ever more Americans are earning their way into higher income brackets. That runs counter to today’s populist gloom ...

When you are reading aloud to a 7-year-old, once you start using a particular voice for a character’s dialogue, you are stuck with that voice for the rest of the book. When that book is J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Dr. Drout is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author of “The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation.” When you are reading aloud to a 7-year-old, once you start using a ...

I’ve Faced Years of Criminal Prosecution — for Exercising Free Speech Rights in Europe The War for Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945, by Joseph ...

I still get chills when I think about King Theoden's rousing speech at the Battle of Pelennor Fields. A mash-up of his various motivational calls to arms across the books (with some of Eomer's lines ...

Amazon Prime Video has announced that production has now wrapped on the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and the streamer has shared a brief video featuring interview clips ...

An excerpt from ‘The War for Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945.’ Halfway through the Great War, on November 30, 1916, a small group of European ...