New plans have been unveiled by the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) for the renovation of The Eagle and Child, a famous ...

I attended a creative writing seminar where the audience was asked to name authors from Oxford. No women authors were named.

Restoration plans for a public house where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien used to meet and socialise together have received approval. A press release by the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), owned ...

GETTING THERE: Oxford is 56 miles northwest of London, about a 75-minute drive. By car, take the M40 to Junction 8. By train, it's an hour from London's Paddington Station; a Cheap Day Return ticket ...

For starters, the Eagle and Child has simply been around a very, very long time. Founded as an inn in the 1650s, the Oxford Clarion called it the city’s ‘most storied inn’. The Inklings were regulars ...

Plans to reopen a pub frequented by two of the 20th Century's most well-known authors, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, have been ...

On January 3, 2003, J.R.R. Tolkien would have celebrated his eleventy-first birthday, a most momentous occasion, the same birthday on which Bilbo departed the Shire for Rivendell. What would this ...

A description of J.R.R. Tolkien's time working on the Oxford English Dictionary together with a detailed analysis of the evidence for his contribution to the entries for individual words.

JRR Tolkien was the author of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit", two of the most beloved fantasy books of all time. But long before he became a fantasy icon, Tolkien was a young British officer ...