In the final years of his life, the author of The Lord of the Rings published one of his least-known stories, and it deserves ...

O ne little-known J.R.R. Tolkien gem from 1962 may look like a children's book, but is anything but. High fantasy pioneer J.R.R. Tolkien is known for writing 1937's The Hobbit and The Lord of the ...

But Tolkien was unlucky to be writing his darker tales in the strange in-between period of the 19th and early 20th centuries, during which he could only get publishers to go for his children’s ...

Tolkien’s tales of Father Christmas endured through 1943, at which point his youngest child, Priscilla, was 14 and perhaps just old enough to no longer be enchanted by this serialized tale ...

The latter argument, proffered by J.R.R. Tolkien, won the day, and C.S. Lewis converted to Christianity. ... Consider the countless children who take such pleasure in stories of Good St. Nick, ...

He recounted to me this week how he has read Tolkien to his children. “I always dreamed I would get interviewed about Lord of the Rings,” Santorum told me.

Tolkien's Santa letter to his children Close He may have been a world-famous author, but Lord of the Rings writer JRR Tolkien also used his talents to entertain those closer to home.

A new book explores how J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholic faith — and especially the Mass — shaped his stories and sustained his soul.

Children’s Books. How Tolkien and Lewis Re-enchanted a War-Weary World. ... J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, not only taught at Oxford together, but also were close friends for two decades.