On Nov. 25, 1936, a young Oxford professor delivered a lecture to the British Academy in London about the Old English epic “Beowulf.” Ronald, as the professor’s friends called him, argued that ...

Facts matter in fictionalized films about famous writers, but only as much as that word “fictionalized” can comfortably allow. In the cliché-prone realm of the biopic it’s hard enough to make writers ...

When J. R. R. Tolkien first set out to write The Lord of the Rings, he did so without intending for it to be seen in any way as a Catholic or religious book. As revealed in The Letters of J. R. R.