Everyone and their mother knows what an Orc is. J.R.R. Tolkien popularized the term in "The Lord of the Rings," and since then, it has become part of the modern vernacular. In the Oxford English ...

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of ... “all Men are Orcs” — it scarcely matters who is holding the ax if the forest gets felled ...

When J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892) passed away in 1973 ... In this section, one discovers that the Orcs, the malevolent shock troops of Middle-earth’s dark forces, were vampiric.

For months the concluding volume was delayed while Professor Tolkien labored with a formidable ... evil beyond the Shire’s narrow borders. Orcs—a new kind of goblin—are multiplying in ...

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth ... as whether a caldera collapse formed Tolkien’s orc-filled Udûn valley. Supported by She ...

Fantasy and science-fiction authors mostly come and go, but Tolkien has endured. Why is this so? What is different about him? For answers, we would do well to look at the recent work of Holly ...

John Ezard meets with J. R. R. Tolkien at his home, walking with him through the Oxford locations that he loves while hearing the author's own views about his wildly successful high-fantasy novels.