J.R.R. Tolkien revealed the real hero of The Lord of the Rings. It’s not Frodo or Aragorn—discover who truly earned the title ...

As Tolkien wrote it, Celeborn was the one who led soldiers to flank Sauron's forces instead of Gil-Galad, and Celebrian was in the city trying to help keep it together. These changes in Tolkien's ...

Tolkien felt the sequence involving the soldiers cutting off tree branches and marching forward into enemy territory as if they were animate trees was deeply disappointing and was not up to ...

In War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme ... turned Robert Graves into the novelist he became in later life; how Tolkien’s experience in the final months of the battle fed into the mythology ...