Set before the events of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Hobbit" has served as an entryway to author's ...

You shall not pass…your weak knowledge of all things Hobbit off as expertise. Dr. Corey Olsen knows everything about Tolkien and he’s here to ease your concerns about a certain upcoming trilogy. And ...

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 ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

While Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and now The Hobbit movie may be how many modern folks see Middle Earth, it’s important to remember that the first person to illustrate J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. After the wild success of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, it would have ...

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 ...

Pippin’s Near Tragic Fate J.R.R. Tolkien once drafted a version of the story where not every Hobbit survived. In his early notes he imagined that Pippin migh ...

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 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings ending could have been a darker one instead of the hopeful one it originally had.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is celebrated for its hopeful ending; however, it was reportedly supposed to have a ...