So you haven't read the Hobbit? Well, you're in for a dragon-sized treat! J. R. R. Tolkien's classic novel was the inspiration for so many works of literature and art that came after it.

The only Middle-earth-based novels to be published by JRR Tolkien in his lifetime were The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He died in 1973. Tolkien pictured in Oxford in 1968 Christopher ...

A memorial to The Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has been unveiled ... by writer and Pembroke alumna Roz Kaveney. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and part of The Lord of the Rings during his ...