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.

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 ...

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 ...