The father of modern fantasy spoke about real-life inspirations for his books and stories, and debunked myths about them too.

Before Peter Jackson's masterpiece, LOTR almost had Frodo romancing Galadriel. A script so wild, Tolkien would've rolled in ...

Boyens says she learned one important thing from a letter Tolkien wrote to his son, editor, and archivist, Christopher ...

The Lord of the Rings Warner Bros. screenwriter had a great point to make about the potential of the franchise and how to get ...

The novels and numerous stories that have been published to date may not be enough for the most passionate fans, who would ...

A Tolkien nerd and a girl who has never seen a single “Lord of the Rings” movie walk into a theater to see “The Lord of The ...

In this section of the Appendices, Tolkien writes that a rival lord named Freca (voiced by Shaun Dooley) proposed that his ...

Ted Danson appeared in almost all 12 seasons of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as one of Larry David’s nemeses. Playing a pretentious ...

“Rohirrim,” which sounds a little like the sound an orc might make sneezing, is perhaps best understood as a placeholder for ...

It started, of course, with J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy books, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Adaptations followed ...

You can check out our full interview with Philippa Boyens below. You got to name a Tolkien character in The Lord of the Rings ...