The Kennedy School celebrates the author’s 134th birthday with a costume contest, “Hobbit” trilogy marathon and quest to find ...

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, an English writer and author of the high-fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was born in South Africa on January 3, 1892. Many will celebrate his birthday ...

Best of 2025: Our most-read news story this year was this story about Robert Plant and his appearance on the Stephen Colbert show, where he explained his love of Tolkien and the influence it had on ...

Tolkien called the lines “remote and strange and beautiful,” saying they made something come alive within him. They inspired one of his early poems, published in 1914, when he was only 22 years old.

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On Nov. 25, 1936, a young Oxford professor delivered a lecture to the British Academy in London about the Old English epic “Beowulf.” Ronald, as the professor’s friends called him, argued that ...

A desk used by the Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien sold in London yesterday for £330,200. The item was listed at Christie’s Groundbreakers on Thursday, December 11. It was expected to realise ...

The desk that J.R.R. Tolkien used to write The Lord of the Rings is being auctioned with a hefty guide price of £50,000 to £80,000. Per a BBC report, the storied desk has a guide price of £50,000 to ...

Extended versions of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy of films are coming to theaters in Massachusetts and the rest of New England. Fans of the movie trilogy can buy tickets now for shows at Regal, and ...