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On Escapism and Tolkien’s Work During Challenging Times

Bag End, Hobbiton Movie Set, Matamata, New Zealand. Photo credit: Myla Malinalda. Haven’t you ever wanted to throw a brick at your TV or computer, run outside your front door to find Bilbo sitting there […]

Step into the Second Age for This Year’s Tolkien Reading Day

With Amazon announcing that their up-coming Tolkien-inspired TV show will include Middle-earth’s Second Age, we thought it would be a great time to focus on the mysteries surrounding the era for 2019’s Tolkien Reading Day. […]

A Closer Look at The Morgan’s Tolkien Exhibit!

*Note that photos were allowed only for media at the Press Preview. Photography is not permitted at the exhibition* The Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum officially opens tomorrow, January 25! Today was their Press Preview and it was definitely an overwhelming […]

Feast Week, Day 5: The Feast of Tom Bombadil

For this year’s Feast Week celebration, we are sharing Middle-earth News Staff Favorites from Feast Weeks past! These posts were chosen by the Middle-earth News team as our collective favorites for each day of Feast […]

BREAKING: ‘The Fall of Gondolin’ to be Released in August 2018

Publisher Harper Collins releases The Fall of Gondolin, edited by Christopher Tolkien, in August 2018. This news comes as a surprise for Christopher Tolkien wrote in the preface of Beren and Luthien, published in 2016, […]

Beren and Luthien Book Club: Week 3 & 4

On March 25th was the long awaited Tolkien Reading Day so all month long in March, we, along with some of our readers, read Tolkien’s Beren and Luthien over in our Facebook Group. Read my […]

Beren and Luthien Book Club: Week 1 & 2

On March 25th is the long awaited Tolkien Reading Day so all month long in March, we, along with some of our readers, are reading Tolkien’s Beren and Luthien over in our Facebook group. If […]

BREAKING: Christopher Tolkien Resigns as Director of the Tolkien Estate

After the news of Amazon producing a new Lord of the Rings series earlier this week, additional news came to Tolkien fans around the world. Christopher Tolkien resigned as an officer of the Tolkien Estate, […]

Interview with Austrian Concrete Artist Daniel Nachbaur

Ever since the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, when readers were first introduced to Middle-earth, Tolkien’s creative vision stimulated the imaginations of many artists in the years to come. From music inspired by Tolkien’s […]

The Hobbit Celebrates its 80th Anniversary!

The Hobbit celebrates its 80 year anniversary today! Written by JRR Tolkien and published by Allen & Unwin, The Hobbit was released to the public on September 21st, 1937. The book started out as a […]