The Library

Artist Pauline Baynes worked as an illustrator for both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. In this feature, Tolkien...

In expanding on Professor Tolkien’s text in his film adaptation, director Peter Jackson allows us to follow Gandalf...

Six notes transform Howard Shore’s Desolation of Smaug soundtrack from adequate to awesome. That might sound a big...

In our newest TORn Library feature, Brian Tither discusses the effectiveness of portraying Tolkiens’ story-telling via cinematography.

A lot of folks have — in the wake of the trailers for The Desolation of Smaug —...

If you’ve seen much of the various bits of footage of Smaug’s hoard, you’ll have gotten the feeling...