Tolkien refers to people as "Orcs" in his letters (usually as a knock on their integrity or behavior). People use the Orc concept across various fantasy media, too. But what is an Orc? More ...

Fantasy and science-fiction authors mostly come and go, but Tolkien has endured. Why is this so? What is different about him? For answers, we would do well to look at the recent work of Holly ...

Tuesday September 2nd 2003 is the 30th anniversary of the death of JRR Tolkien. His parents both came from Birmingham but his father, Arthur, who was a bank clerk, moved to South Africa in the ...