The Middle-earth author spent some imaginary time in the North Pole for an audience of just four people: his children.

A hundred years ago, at the height of the First World War, John Tolkien, a 25-year-old former lieutenant with the Lancaster Fusiliers, went walking with his wife, Edith, in the Yorkshire countryside.

Cops have quizzed the oldest son of “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien over allegations he sexually abused several young boys while working as a priest. The probe involves the Rev. John Tolkien ...

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is looking at allegation in Birmingham's Roman Catholic Archdiocese A Roman Catholic Archdiocese was apparently aware of sexual abuse by Father John ...

As Amazon Studios prepares to return to Middle-earth with its new “Lord of the Rings”series, Fox Searchlight sheds light on the man behind the fantasy epic, releasing a new trailer on Wednesday for ...

A Catholic priest accused of child abuse was not reported to police despite apparently admitting he ordered a group of Scouts to strip naked, an independent inquiry has been told. Father John Tolkien, ...

As Amazon Studios prepares to return to Middle-earth with its new “Lord of the Rings”series, Fox Searchlight sheds light on the man behind the fantasy epic, releasing a new trailer on Wednesday for ...

Just last week, Stephen Colbert gave an interview in which the depth of his Catholic faith was on pretty clear display. Discussing the trauma that he experienced as a young man—the deaths of his ...

Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment. Edited by C.L. Wrenn and W.F. Bolton, U of Exeter P, 1992. Bliss, Alan. “Preface.” J.R.R. Tolkien, Finn and Hengest: The ...

One of Tolkien’s abandoned projects was an epic poem about the legend of King Arthur. Laid aside for decades, The Fall of Arthur has finally been published. Tolkien biographer John Garth on how it ...

A Roman Catholic Archdiocese was apparently aware of sexual abuse by Father John Tolkien, son of novelist JRR Tolkien, but never reported it until decades later. The priest was believed to have denied ...