which he published after Tolkien's death, considered adjusting the text to comply with Tolkien's wish to return to the Round World Version. He decided against...

the opinion of Tolkien scholars like R. T. Tally be straightforward racism. Tolkien's Round World dilemma – another dilemma that Tolkien never resolved...

his name. Tolkien's will was proven on 20 December 1973, with his estate valued at £190,577 (equivalent to £2,454,000 in 2023). Tolkien's Catholicism...

from Arda, which is reshaped as a round world. Scholars have compared the implied cosmology with that of Tolkien's religion, Catholicism, and of medieval...

Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of...

for Tolkien's major Middle-earth books, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien's Middle-earth was part of his created world of...

pp. 117–122 "The Leaf Mold of Tolkien's Mind" Martinez, Michael (10 July 2015). "Tolkien's Dickensian Dreams". The Tolkien Society. Retrieved 31 March 2023...

Ring des Nibelungen; Tolkien denied any connection, but at the least, both men drew on the same mythology. Another source is Tolkien's analysis of Nodens...

Trolls are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and feature in films and games adapted from his novels. They are portrayed as monstrously...

Evil is ever-present in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional realm of Middle-earth. Tolkien is ambiguous on the philosophical question of whether evil is the absence...

author. See also Tolkien's sentience dilemma. Carpenter 2023, #29 to Stanley Unwin, #30 to Rütten & Loening, both 25 July 1938 Tolkien 1954, book 3, ch...

however, is Tolkien's description of the enormous dragon firework at Bilbo's party which rushed overhead "like an express train". Tolkien's drawing of...

stories from Tolkien's childhood, such as books by John Buchan and H. Rider Haggard, especially the 1887 She: A History of Adventure. Tolkien stated that...

after the success of J. R. R. Tolkien's children's book The Hobbit, until the novel's publication in 1954–1955. Tolkien began with no idea where the story...

l'Enseignement Supérieur (63): 57–78. Juričková, Martina (2014). "Friendship in Tolkien's world". Mallorn (55): 32–34. Little, Ariel (2020). "Hope remains while the...

"resounding phrase". The Tolkien scholar Jane Chance's 1979 book Tolkien's Art: 'A Mythology for England' analysed the idea that Tolkien's Middle-earth writings...

the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit, but eventually...

with Men, and indeed Tolkien intended it to represent the real world in the distant past. Commentators have questioned Tolkien's attitude to race, given...

war's likely influences on Tolkien's work, including in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and Tolkien's poetry. Dome Karukoski's 2019...

psychological depth; the loss of Tolkien's emphasis on free will and individual responsibility; the flattening out of Tolkien's balanced treatment of evil to...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy The Lord of the Rings, Harad is the immense land south of Gondor and Mordor. Its main port is Umbar, the base of the...

Barrow-wights are wraith-like creatures in J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth. In The Lord of the Rings, the four hobbits are trapped by a barrow-wight...

The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring and followed...

relationships; and references to Tolkien's original text, as authority. People involved in such discussions have nearly always read Tolkien's Middle-earth books. Artworks...

template" for Tolkien's ideas of time travel. The physicist Kristine Larsen, writing in Mallorn, endorses Flieger's view, saying that Tolkien "undoubtedly...

Gothic, and Tolkien's constructed languages, especially his Elvish languages, Quenya and Sindarin. Commentators have noted that Tolkien's verse has long...

Gollum is a monster with a distinctive style of speech in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The...

circle in each case. Tolkien described himself as a Hobbit in all but size. Scholars have noted that Bag End is a vision of Tolkien's ideal home, and effectively...

quoted speech untranslated, noting that Tolkien's "Guide to the Names" seems to concur with this approach. Tolkien stated in The Two Towers that the name...

Storytelling is explored in multiple ways in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, with stories told in different styles, attributed to many different...