J. R. R. Tolkien

Streaming giant Amazon has defended the racially diverse casting of its big budget series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," which some fans say distorts the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Amazon announced on Sept. 3 that its big budget series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, had marked the biggest premiere in the history of Prime Video with 25 million viewers.

The deal also includes “matching rights” in other Middle-earth-related literary works authorized by the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins

New Zealand will once again be Middle-earth. Amazon begins filming the series "The Lord of the Rings". The new TV show will be based on Tolkien's novel.

The University of Oxford unveiled June 1 a "once-in-a-generation" exhibition of materials related to "The Lord of the Rings" author J. R. R. Tolkien, featuring previously unseen objects from several countries.

In its quest to launch a hit fantasy series of the Game of Thrones calibre, Amazon has closed a massive deal — said to be close to $250 million — to acquire global TV rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. The streaming service has given a multi-season commitment to a LOTR series in the pact, which also includes a potential spinoff series.

Amazon today announced it has acquired the global television rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the celebrated fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, with a multi-season commitment. The upcoming Amazon Prime Original will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

A new book by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien is going on sale – 100 years after it was first conceived.
Beren and Lúthien has been described as a “very personal story” that the Oxford professor thought up after returning from the WWI Battle of the Somme.
It was edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and contains versions of a tale that became part of The Silmarillion.

The Hobbits were arguably one of the most favourite creatures in J. R. Tolkien’s fantasy books and the highly successful movie adaptation. New Zealand has preserved the fantastical creatures’ homes created in the films and is exploiting their Hobbit holes for tourism. But there is actually a real Hobbit, and he is not in any fantasy book or movie. Meet Yuri Alekseyev.

Two of the planned 100 houses to be built by the Sivas Municipality in Central Anatolia inspired by the world of Middle Earth have been completed.