Unfinished Tolkien work to be published (AP)

" NEW YORK - An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday. Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on "The Children of Hurin," an epic...

Teasing laughs from Tolkien

"Comedy is one juice that you wouldn't expect to be able to squeeze out of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga. But if Leonard Nimoy can sing about Bilbo Baggins, then we should be allowed to laugh. It's that silly, mock-1950s ditty that opens a new, late-night...

Tolkien at One Hundred and Fourteen

It's the birthday of J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien, born in South Africa (1892). His family came back to England after his father died and his mother taught him Latin and converted him to Catholicism. She died when he was twelve and friends said he stayed a Catholic and...

The Road Goes Ever On

It was on this day in 1954, the first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy came out, The Fellowship of the Ring. It was the sequel to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, which came out in 1937. Tolkien had written The Hobbit for his own amusement and didn't expect it to sell well....