Those beginning to explore author J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books are sure to come across or hear about The ...

Famously, Tolkien was very critical of Hitler and of fascism, arguably because he supported an even more conservative, less demotic and less modern form of racial-cultural bigotry! That is at least in ...

While neither is noted for writing dystopian or futuristic fiction, both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis wrote of the warped view of eternal life that may emerge in the future.

According to JRR Tolkien, creator of the Middle Earth fantasy world, there were three races of hobbits, including harfoots, who were "browner of skin".

In an interview, Tolkien, while not specifically characterizing the Jews as warlike, nonetheless spoke to an explicit connection with biblical characterizations of the Jews, with the biblical ...

I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two of the principal architects of the modern fantasy tradition, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis ...

It’s more than 20 years since Peter Jackson’s blockbusting three-part adaptation of Tolkien’s epic, The Lord of the Rings, was first released.Now it has returned for a three-day-run at movie ...

How Amazon's "The Rings of Power" prequel grapples with the deeply ingrained ideas of racial difference and racial determinism in J.R.R. Tolkien’s world.

Tolkien’s letters show the ways that real-world ideas about race influenced Middle-Earth. He wrote “I do think of the ‘Dwarves’ like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations.” ...