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The Lord of the Rings

Frodo from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings

The meaning of Tolkien's iconic symbol

By Hephzibah Anderson

Tolkien’s conception of evil in Middle Earth was informed by the horrors of the trenches (Credit: New Line Cinema)
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How WW1 inspired The Lord of the Rings
By Simon Tolkien
(Credit: Alamy)
Britain
Did Tolkien write ‘juvenile trash’?
By Dominic Sandbrook
Game of Thrones (Credit: HBO)
Words' Worth
Can you invent a language?
By Hephzibah Anderson
Evangeline Lilly in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Warner Bros)
Film
Is the final Hobbit film a flop?
By Nicholas Barber
Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (AF archive/Alamy)
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Tolkien: Hobbits and hippies
By Jane Ciabattari
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister (HBO)
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Game of Thrones’ debt to Tolkien
By Jane Ciabattari