J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth is perhaps the most captivating fantasy world ever created. He developed the idea during the ...

J.R.R. Tolkien suffered through trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I; it was there he began crafting the imaginative world that would become Middle Earth. Amid the bombing of London ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary works set within the ... Tolkien’s experiences in World War I would mark the author and greatly influence his writings. He participated in the Battle of the Somme ...

The papers connected to author A.A. Milne—including original drafts, illustrations, letters, poems and corrected proofs—sold ...

A tenuous ceasefire has ended the hostilities in Gaza but the deep impacts of that conflict on Australian society continue to ...

To remedy that, I’ve found a rather unconventional cure: reading fairy tales. Most recently, it’s been the German writer Michael Ende’s 1979 fantasy novel, “The Neverending Story,” which follows the ...

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"You know, [author J.R.R.] Tolkien himself hated people who tried to read The Lord of the Rings that way. He hated allegories. He said, 'I'm not writing about World War I, I'm not writing about ...

It is a great loss for humanity that the works of J.R.R. Tolkien have become a cinematic franchise ... But the work of his lifetime, which he began writing in the trenches of World War I, was “The ...

Kaiserreich asks and answers the daring question: ‘What if Germany won WWI?’ A deeply rich world fourteen years ... and overlays to recreate J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and its wars is simply too ...