March 25 was the date of the downfall of Sauron, Lord of the Rings. Since 2003, it has also been Tolkien Reading Day. Writer, poet, linguist and university professor John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien was born in 1892 in South Africa to an English bank manager and his wife. Tolkien lost both his parents during …read more.

OXFORD, ENGLAND — A recently discovered map of Middle Earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien has been found in the copy of the acclaimed illustrator Pauline Baynes’ copy of the Lord of the Rings.