John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, or J,R.R. Tolkien, was one of the most influential figures in the history of modern fantasy fiction. Created out of a desire to give England its own mythology that wasn’t copied from other world cultures, and further built on in 1911 when he began writing The Silmarillon (which wouldn’t be finishedContinue reading “Middle-Earth in Film: Ranked from Worst to Best.”