Restoration plans for a public house where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien used to meet and socialise together have received ...

Plans to reopen a pub frequented by two of the 20th Century's most well-known authors, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, have been ...

Foster & Partners has secured planning permission and listed building consent for the restoration of The Eagle and Child pub ...

For starters, the Eagle and Child has simply been around a very, very long time. Founded as an inn in the 1650s, the Oxford Clarion called it the city’s ‘most storied inn’. The Inklings were regulars ...

GETTING THERE: Oxford is 56 miles northwest of London, about a 75-minute drive. By car, take the M40 to Junction 8. By train, it's an hour from London's Paddington Station; a Cheap Day Return ticket ...

On January 3, 2003, J.R.R. Tolkien would have celebrated his eleventy-first birthday, a most momentous occasion, the same birthday on which Bilbo departed the Shire for Rivendell. What would this ...

A description of J.R.R. Tolkien's time working on the Oxford English Dictionary together with a detailed analysis of the evidence for his contribution to the entries for individual words.

If, in the 1930s, someone had sought to predict the bestselling English author of the 20th century, they probably would not have selected the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford.

J.R.R. Tolkien, renowned Catholic writer and creator of Middle-earth, died 50 years ago this September. His books continue to captivate minds. Tolkien enthusiasts near and far continue to champion the ...

David Salo’s colleagues and classmates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have absolutely no idea how he spends his free time. It’s not that the 32-year-old linguistics grad student is ashamed of ...