The Lord of the Rings

The intellectual passions of J.R.R. Tolkien

24 October 2026 9:00 am

There was something remorseless about Tolkien’s spiritual beliefs, as there was about his love of Old Norse and his obsession with privacy

Tolkien knew the truth about power

29 August 2026 9:00 am

One route into the thorny question of J.R.R. Tolkien’s politics comes courtesy of Giorgia Meloni. Scarcely a profile of the…

Waybread

16 January 2016 9:00 am

‘Did you say “fabric”?’ asked my husband when I was telling him about words that have just been added to…