J.R.R. Tolkien in his military uniform, 1916. From July until October of that year, the future author served at the Battle of the Somme until a case of trench fever rendered him unfit for duty. J ...

Nicholas Hoult, left, and Lily Collins in “Tolkien.” As a soldier during World War 1, Tolkien developed a secret code to update his wife about his location so as to not tip off the British ...

Tolkien was many things, an Oxford educated scholar, a soldier in the British Army during World War One, and most famously the author behind the Lord of the Rings series. His books feature a ...

Tolkien and his wife, Edith, in a 1940 family photo. Their sons Christopher and Michael (flanking their sister Priscilla) would soon leave to serve in the war.

On January 3, 2003, J.R.R. Tolkien would have celebrated his eleventy-first birthday, ... his wife’s deteriorating health in the mid-1960s resulting in her death in 1971, ...

Tolkien and his wife, Edith, lived in numerous Oxford houses—several were lodgings “in college”—and attended Catholic churches in the area.

Tolkien and his wife Edith married in 1916, and honeymooned in the Somerset village of Clevedon. While they were there, they paid a visit to one of the most jaw-dropping landscapes in Britain: ...

Tickets are on offer to the grand unveiling of two new wooden sculptures paying tribute to JRR Tolkien's connection with East Yorkshire. The big reveal is set to take place at All Saints Church in ...