Wall Street Journal

‘The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien’ Review: Notes From Middle-earth

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...
The Conversation

First publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s collected poems offers new insights into the Lord of the Rings author’s personality

Tom Emanuel receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and ...
America Magazine

‘The Rings of Power’ stays true to Tolkien’s Catholic vision

When J. R. R. Tolkien first set out to write The Lord of the Rings, he did so without intending for it to be seen in any way as a Catholic or religious book. As revealed in The Letters of J. R. R.