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Successful stories ask readers four key questions: ‘What will happen next?’ This question forms the basis of even the most primitive tale...

Tolkien is often quoted in terms of things his characters say in his fiction, especially the world famous and highly popular The Lord of...

Obvious as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, or Hans Solo in Star Wars, less obvious as Fielding in A Passage to India or Sirius Black in...

Tolkien wrote essays and poetry discussing the importance of art and myth, quite apart from his Middle-earth tales. There’s evidence in...

Peter Jackson's films gave us a visual legacy of a sort. Had it not been for his dedicated persistence, the Tolkien world would have...

It was several years after I had first read The Lord of the Rings that I realised that its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was a close friend of...

At this writing, Spring is taking its slow hold over the Yorkshire countryside. It's difficult not to be tempted to again relate some of...

A key fact about Tolkien’s fascination with creating language is not so well-known, and that is the sheer scale of his creativity in this...

While living in Australia, I used to find guidebooks full of pictures of the English countryside and imagine how they fitted scenes in J....

When we read The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, we are looking through a small keyhole into the wider created world which Tolkien began...