“The first time we met Simon Tolkien, we had to pinch ourselves — here we were, sitting across the table from the grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien himself,” McKay tells Entertainment Weekly. “And that was ...

In an interview with Collider, Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne discussed how they kept the series close to Tolkien’s vision. McKay and Payne shared how they worked with Tolkien scholars and the Tolkien ...

The phrase “no man’s land” conjures up the zone between opposing trenches on the Western Front of World War I. “No Man’s Land” is also the title of Simon Tolkien’s barnburner of a novel, which, ...

Simon Tolkien's new novel was inspired by his grandfather J.R.R.'s time on the Somme — but in theme, tone and style, it owes more to Charles... I would argue that the most successful novel of the ...

Demetrious Polychron had been a devoted fan of the Lord of the Rings novels since his childhood. In a 2017 letter to Simon Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien’s grandson, Polychron professed his love for the ...

Towles' book was on best-of-2016 lists from NPR, The Washington Post and others; our critic called it "smart" and "richly satisfying." I heard Towles speak last fall at the Texas Book Festival and ...

J.R.R. Tolkien died decades before Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy hit theaters, but let's dig into what Tolkien's ...