Most people are likely aware — at least vaguely — that J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was Catholic. Fewer, perhaps, know how seriously he took his faith, in a time ...

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...

May 8—Douglas A. Anderson's notes opening the Mariner edition of "The Lord of the Rings" makes the argument that J.R.R. Tolkien's best-known work is erroneously called a trilogy when it is actually ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. Yet long before he was the “father of ...

The father of modern fantasy literature gave the world an epic mythology, taking readers on a magnificent journey through his creation, Middle-earth.