Tolkien and his wife Edith married in 1916, and honeymooned in the Somerset village of Clevedon. While they were there, they paid a visit to one of the most jaw-dropping landscapes in Britain ...

The Beren and Lúthien story is especially important because Tolkien personally identified with it. He considered himself the lowly, desperately romantic Beren, and his wife, Edith, was his Lúthien.

Beren and Lúthien are said to be inspired by Tolkien’s real-life romance with his wife Edith; the characters’ names are etched into the couple’s gravestone beneath their birth names.

Mr Garth said on a walk in an East Yorkshire wood Tolkien's wife Edith danced in a glade filled with white flowers, which became the key scene in Beren and Lúthien. He said: "Mr Tolkien felt the ...

Tolkien expanded upon that briefly mentioned ... These women are known only as the Nomad (Edith Poor), the Ascetic (Kali ...

Tolkien fell in love with Edith Bratt when he was 16. They were then separated for five years because his guardian refused to allow him to contact Edith until he was 21. They married on 22 March ...

Elvish is the heart of Tolkien’s mythology, and it’s all over the latest adaptation of his work, Prime Video’s The Rings of Power. Quenya, which Tolkien describes as a sort of “Elf Latin ...

THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...

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For Lord of the Rings fans, the new Collector's Edition series offers a budget-friendly way to get collectible, display-worthy versions J.R.R. Tolkien's best-known works. All five hardcover books ...