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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series comprises some of the most influential fantasy tales ever told. There have been plenty of video game adaptations since the early 1980s, and in recent ...

Generations of readers have fallen in love with the fantasy novels of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, in part for the reprieve they offer from the dreary and mundane. But these tales offer something ...

When you are reading aloud to a 7-year-old, once you start using a particular voice for a character’s dialogue, you are stuck with that voice for the rest of the book. When that book is J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Dr. Drout is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author of “The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation.” When you are reading aloud to a 7-year-old, once you start using a ...

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I still get chills when I think about King Theoden's rousing speech at the Battle of Pelennor Fields. A mash-up of his various motivational calls to arms across the books (with some of Eomer's lines ...

States Went All In on Sports Gambling — and Young Men Are the Losers CNN Bombs: Network’s Bungling of the NYC Attack Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time A story that needs retelling in our age of rage.

Middle-earth is full of the fantastic, but it’s not all sunshine and roses. For all of the mystical Elves and cheery Hobbits, there are a lot of terrifying monsters that pop up throughout J.R.R.