JRR Tolkien
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Original manuscripts show how author rewrote scenes for 1950s adaptation of his Middle-earth epic Lord of the Rings
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Peter Jackson’s first Lord of the Rings film was a stunning achievement but it introduced a new world of delayed and extended gratification
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The US investment product promising users ‘a journey through risk to reward’ has been ruled an infringement of trademark rights
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From classic tales such as Paradise Lost to ‘counter-epics’ by Anne Carson and Tim O’Brien, these stories lend real grandeur to their subjects
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Novelist Mark Billingham advises readers to angrily launch a book across the room after 20 non-gripping pages – but almost 40% of people will keep going right to the end
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Elijah Wood among stars to laud project of Nicolas Gentile to transform land into personal ‘shire’
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After building his own version of Middle-earth, Nicolas Gentile has thrown a ‘ring’ into Mount Vesuvius
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The author-illustrator on being read Tolkien at school, the perfect picture book and struggling to crack The Da Vinci Code
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Could this ramshackle 1991 Russian adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring be the best adaptation of Tolkien’s work?
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Russian-language film posted on YouTube delights fans with its rudimentary sets and ludicrous special effects
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The author’s artwork is published alongside his text in new edition of the classic fantasy novel
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The appeal, backed by Ian McKellen, to raise £4.5m to convert 20 Northmoor Road into a permanent Tolkien centre fell short of its target
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Author Namina Forna loved JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis’ books as a child, but saw little that resembled the magic and rich mythology she saw in Africa
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Project backed by Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman hopes to raise £4.5m for the purchase, but there are concerns about intentions of Christian groups involved
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Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman support £4.5m crowdfunding campaign to turn the Oxford home where Tolkien wrote his most famous books into a museum
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The Nature of Middle-earth will cover topics including Elvish immortality, the geography of Gondor – and which races could grow beards
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It’s there and back again for our writer, who takes in Hobbiton, the mill, the Old Forest and the author’s childhood home – all in the suburb of Sarehole
‘Until now, audiences have only seen the story of the One Ring’: details announced for Lord of The Rings TV show