Matthew Jackson
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 3:37pm
Is this the original "One Ring" that inspired Tolkien's tales?
The Lord of the Rings stories
Trent Moore
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 10:51am
Middle-earth has never looked so sharp!
Matthew Jackson
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 10:52am
Wanna read a new edition of the very first biography on Lord of the Rings creator J. R. R. Tolkien, for free? Too bad.
Trent Moore
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 1:43pm
Though it only cameos in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the One Ring is the catalyst that sets off the entire saga of Lord of the Rings. Want to follow the saga from the ring’s perspective?
Adam-Troy Castro
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 10:41am
I've been asked to list the top ten science fiction books that inspired my work. That's a tough assignment, particularly because I didn't read contemporary science fiction until I took a science fiction class at the university and first read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin.
Matthew Jackson
Friday, December 14, 2012 - 2:35pm
This holiday season happens to coincide with a very special event for Middle-earth fans: the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first film in a new trilogy from director Peter Jackson starring characters and lands created by J.R.R. Tolkien, arguably the greatest fantasy author of all time.
Matthew Jackson
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 11:56am
If we know nothing else about J. R. R. Tolkien's freaky creation Gollum, we know that he really, really loves two things: his "Precious" One Ring and raw, wriggling fish. The latter is pretty much all he eats, but did you ever wonder just how many fish he needs to survive? One physicist did, and he took the trouble to do the math.
Matthew Jackson
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 4:55pm
We've known for years that Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, but turned the role down because he didn't understand the story. What we didn't know until now was that Connery could have earned big, big money for the role, money that puts the earnings of many stars half his age to shame.
Matthew Jackson
Friday, September 21, 2012 - 2:12pm
It was on this day 75 years ago that a little children's book about a reluctant Hobbit and his magical adventure first appeared. Today, more than 100 million copies later, The Hobbit is a touchstone of fantasy literature, the acclaimed and beloved beginning of a literary empire that later spawned what many consider the greatest fantasy saga ever written: The Lord of the Rings.
Marc Bernardin
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 10:06am
You'd think that Lord of the Rings' J.R.R. Tolkien, author of one of the best-selling books in the history of books, would've been a shoo-in when he was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature back in 1961. But he wasn't—and now, some recently declassified Nobel committee documents show why.
