J.R.R. Tolkien

Italy

The secret to Giorgia Meloni’s success

She refused to play the victim and found iron in her soul

Nicholas Farrell

Bored of the rings: ‘wokery’ takes on Tolkien

The chief sin of Amazon’s The Rings of Power is that it is often simply dull

J.S. Barnes

The enormous humility of C.S. Lewis

Sixty years on, how urgently the world needs Lewis’s defense of what he called the Tao

A.N. Wilson

Why does a new Tolkien biography remain elusive?

His books and television adaptations keep coming, but we know little of J.R.R. Tolkien’s life

Alexander Larman

Film

The Tolkien industry is about to get bigger — but not necessarily better

Expect self-indulgence by the bucketload along with flashy yet mediocre special effects

Alexander Larman