CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

A hundred years ago, at the height of the First World War, John Tolkien, a 25-year-old former lieutenant with the Lancaster Fusiliers, went walking with his wife, Edith, in the Yorkshire countryside.

J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by everything from the poem The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson to the plays of William Shakespeare to the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The fairytale opening line of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is among the most memorable and beloved in literature: "In a hole in the ...

Hill, who starred as King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, was scheduled to appear at Liverpool Comic Con over the weekend, but ...

A note from a reader regarding Tolkien Reading Day, including a passage that is all too appropriate for the times we live in: My favorite passage comes from the Two Towers, when Aragorn and Eomer meet ...

Bernard Hill’s castmates from The Lord of the Rings gave several touching tributes to the actor, who died Sunday at the age of 79. Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Sean Astin — who played ...

When The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is released on Wednesday, it will likely mark the end of Peter Jackson’s stint bringing J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novels to the big screen. Fans ...

John Ronal Reuel Tolkien was known as a notoriously donnish figure at Oxford, where he taught Anglo-Saxon. He was the quintessentially equable academic: smoking a pipe, enjoying a beer at the pub and ...

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 ...

Lord of the Rings cast members Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Sean Astin, who played four Hobbits in the trilogy, are remembering Bernard Hill, who died suddenly Sunday morning at the ...