All great creators have great influences. For Tolkien, it was his faith, his wife, Edith, a multitude of mythologies, real-life...

"I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that...

“Then the pursuit was begun; and the earth shook beneath the horses of the host of Oromë, and the fire that was stricken from the hooves...