Fox Searchlight and Chernin Entertainment have begun filming the biopic Tolkien, with first images available. And, more news on the cast.

HarperCollins has today released “The Middle-earth Treasury”, a deluxe boxed set of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien illustrator Roger Garland died yesterday after a three-year battle with motor neurone disease. He was 67.

The Bodleian Library will publish Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth as a companion to the forthcoming exhibition of the same name on 1 June 2018.