"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Frodo Baggins quickly discovers that heading to Mordor alone in The Lord of the Rings trilogy is not ...

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are household names to Christian thinkers. Tolkien, the author of “Lord of the Rings” — which is inspiring a new set of movies in the coming years — described the work as ...

There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer G.K. Chesterton to C.S. Lewis, and those who don’t. As counterintuitive as this might seem, this sweeping statement is literally and ...

One of the most emblematic museums in the city of Rome, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, is currently hosting an exhibition on the life of the writer J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of ...

A British soldier began writing "The Fall of Gondolin" while in a hospital bed, stricken by "trench disease" from the lethal front lines of World War I. A German soldier later bemoaned the "lice, rats ...

I haven’t come across a whole ton of quality writing about C.S. Lewis. Some of it over-focuses on the Christian angle, pro and con, and a lot more of it is kind of fannish, which isn’t a huge problem ...

A midlife crisis 25 years ago opened the door to a wardrobe for which David Payne is well suited. Payne, now 80, had never stepped foot onstage until he played author C.S. Lewis in “Shadowlands” in ...