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J. R. R. Tolkien's most familiar creation, the hobbits of Middle-earth, belonged only to his private world until September 1937. Before then they were known only to his children, his great friend C. S. Lewis, and a few other people. The print run of what...

The place in fantasy literature earned by J. R. R. Tolkien is indisputable. Tolkien is directly responsible for the rising popularity of fantasy literature in the late twentieth century. While authors such as Anne McCaffrey may dominate the scene of mode...

The driving passion of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's literary life was to make his "fairystories" so complete in description and detail, so varied in character and action, so expansive in philosophy and religion, as to be "real." He was in every way the pe...

Byline: Casey Common; Staff Writer In his foreword to "The Lord of the Rings," J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "This tale grew in the telling." More than 30 years after his death, it's still growing. "The Children of H[unkfa]rin" (Houghton Mifflin, 316 pages,...

The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Brian Sibley and John Howe, 80 pp., hardbound book and four folded maps in a case, all boxed, $29.95, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 2003 (ISBN: 0-618-39110-x); The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare by Chris Smith, 218p., paperback,...