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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

For two men who built grand worlds of myth and magic, LEWIS AND TOLKIEN is a strikingly intimate and deeply human story—not of great battles or epic journeys, but of friendship, regret, and the ...

Tolkien's most mysterious and surprisingly powerful character explained. ... winning the wife lottery aside, most impressively, Tom Bombadil isn't affected by the One Ring's influence at all.

In Simon Tolkien's new historical novel, a young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of an identity at the dawn ...

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

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

Christopher Tolkien’s wife, Baillie, had them compiled and published for a book titled The Father Christmas Letters. The originals later went on display at the University of Oxford in 2017.

In Tolkien’s writings, “The Shire” is a home for hobbits. In Versailles, The Shires is a subdivision for people and pets – ...