Daniel Grotta’s critical biography of J.R.R. Tolkein bears several distinctions. “J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth” from Running Press was the first biography of the author of “The Hobbit” ...

John Hendrix’s magically illustrated biography tells the tale of one of literature’s greatest friendships. Show, don’t tell, say the masters of literature. But in “The Mythmakers: The Remarkable ...

From light romps to profound reads, a bumper crop of books tells us more about the maker of Middle-earth. For a warm portrait of the man and his work, see Clyde Kilby, Tolkien and the Silmarillion ...

His parents both came from Birmingham but his father, Arthur, who was a bank clerk, moved to South Africa in the 1890's in the hope of bettering himself. In 1896 Arthur Tolkien died, and the family ...

The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary edited by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner Oxford University Press £12.99, pp256 In October 1916, a 24-year-old JRR ...

Michael Coren’s new biography of J.R.R. Tolkien could not have come at a more appropriate time. It follows on the heels of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings being voted the most popular book of the last ...

We may know him best for giving us the world of Middle-earth, but J.R.R. Tolkien was a man of many talents. As an esteemed scholastic linguist, he gave an influential lecture at Oxford about the ...

A trailer of the biography movie " TOLKIEN" depicting the life of JRR Tolkien, the creator of "The Lord of the Rings" was released. The fact that Tolkien, the parents of which died and orphaned, ...

TOLKIEN - A BIOGRAPHY by Michael White. Published in hardback by Little Brown, £16.99. Now his masterpiece is on the big screen, Tokien's life is a hot topic. In his new biography, Michael White ...