The Elves were Middle-earth's version of a technologically advanced society - " Their 'magic' is Art, " as Tolkien said in a ...

The Deluxe Special Edition of The Hobbit is available for $77, and The Silmarillion is up for grabs for only $55.

Bolg amondol was a raccoon-sized armored mostesaurian lizard that lived about 77 million years ago, similar to today’s Gila monsters ( Heloderma horridum ). It is named after the goblin prince from ...

There is likewise a stirring ecological politics and love of nature in Tolkien. Gardeners of varying sorts turn out to be the ultimate key to human thriving. But Tolkien’s is a deeply tragic ...

This spring, the Collège des Bernardins marks the seventieth anniversary of The Lord of the Rings with a tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien ’s visual artistry. From March 21 to May 18, 2025, the exhibition ...

Fantasy writer China Miéville looks at the ideas and work of JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. In 1954 and 1955 a professor of English at Oxford University published a long, rambling ...

“We know that he’s an elf in Eregion, we know who he’s related to, we know he’s involved in making the rings of power, and we know that he dies,” deadpanned McKay — and he’s not wrong.

Elvish is the heart of Tolkien’s mythology, and it’s all over the latest adaptation of his work, Prime Video’s The Rings of Power. Quenya, which Tolkien describes as a sort of “Elf Latin ...

Tolkien only mentions Círdan’s beard once, in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, when Círdan is preparing to finally leave Middle-earth and sail West with Elrond and Galadriel.