Facebook has 'banned' a Birmingham Tolkien fan for using "hate speech" after joking that people from the Black Country were "orcs and trolls". Claire Harris, 41, made the quip during an online ...

A self-styled Smaug had the tapes hidden away, but thankfully someone persuaded him Tolkien’s speech shouldn’t stay lost. Back in 1958 J.R.R. Tolkien attended a dinner in his honor, hosted by devoted ...

What is the secret of The Lord of the Rings' appeal? Re-reading the books in the run up to the film, AN Wilson found a surprising answer SOME time ago, in one of his witty columns in The Telegraph, ...

JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth has been adapted successfully for film and TV, and the adaptations have made inspired additions ...

There is still confusion over which towers are "The Two Towers" in the title of J.R.R. Tolkien's second Lord of the Rings ...

Stephen Colbert delivered a hilarious, heartwarming speech about his relationship with J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterworks of Middle-earth and Peter Jackson‘s film adaptations of the Lord of the Rings ...

A grumpy letter from the author JRR Tolkien in which he moans about a "disgusting" and "costly" holiday has sold for £1,700 at auction. 30 January 2012 • 11:29am Adrian Rathbone, an associate at ...