A professor sits in his study at Northmoor Road, grading exam papers. His name is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. He fought in the ...

A new Oxford exhibition offers unusual artifacts of the famed writer. TOLKIEN TREASURES. Above, the final design of The Hobbit dust jacket is part of ‘Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth.’ Tolkien not only ...

Eighty years ago Thursday, English writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, otherwise known as J.R.R. Tolkien, released the first edition of The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. The children's fantasy told ...

HarperCollins will publish a new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for the first time since the fantasy novel’s original publication in 1937. It will feature a gallery of 50 paintings, maps, and ...

An unexpected journey unfolds as Blaine High School Theatre presents its fall production of “The Hobbit” Oct. 10–12.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Following the massively successful release of new illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings ...

For many of us, it began with a hole - a hobbit hole. But for J.R.R. Tolkien, he started elsewhere. Born on Jan. 3, 1892, in South Africa, Tolkien had a difficult childhood. While he may be best known ...

The Lord of the Rings Collector's Editions weren't the only premium hardcover editions of Tolkien's classic fantasy novel ...

In time for the release of the second installment in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy comes Tolkien scholar Douglas A. Anderson's The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition. Anderson has ...

It's no secret that people go crazy for anything J.R.R. Tolkien has touched. In case you need further proof of that, a first edition of The Hobbit inscribed by the author just shattered sales records ...