The One Ring RPG BackerKit campaign raises $1.75M in its first 26 hours as Free League Publishing upgrades its Lord of the Rings 5E adaptation to the D&D 5.5e ruleset, making it fully stand-alone for ...

From The Fellowship of the Ring to The Return of the King, a Lord of the Rings fan ranks every entry J.R.R. Tolkien's book trilogy masterpiece.

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This book review appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of The Independent Review. Though I have been thinking about Tolkien—sometimes deeply, sometimes romantically, sometimes in a scholarly way—since The ...

Journey to Gondor and Rohan with New Expansions for The One Ring™ and The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E   Now on BackerKit: a Middle-earth bestiary, revised core rules with solo play, and a fully ...

The One Ring, the acclaimed tabletop RPG set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, raced past its crowdfunding goal in under an hour as fans rushed to back the new campaign.

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A long-hidden recording of JRR Tolkien’s final interview has shed new light on his view of The Lord of the Rings’ “most tragic moment”, the BBC reports. The 1968 interview, filmed by the BBC, was ...

A member of the Star Tribune team that won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, Rohan Preston has been theater critic at the paper since 1998. He led a Star Tribune team that won an Emmy for a ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, writer, artist, scholar and linguist is to be honoured in Westminster Abbey in Poets’ Corner alongside his close friend and fellow writer, C.S. Lewis. A major new memorial celebrating ...

In 1968, the BBC broadcast extracts from JRR Tolkien's last ever recorded interview, 31 years after The Hobbit was published. In 2019, the full video was unearthed from the archive. JRR Tolkien's The ...