"J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript" continues through Dec. 23 at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art,1234 W. Tory Hill St. Tickets for timed entry are required.

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), Father Christmas drawing of “Me” and “My House,” (1920). Courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries, ©the Tolkien Estate Ltd 1976.

She added, “Now, in this new edition, readers will at last be able to enjoy the full panoply of J.R.R. Tolkien’s paintings, drawings, maps, and designs that richly capture the enchanted world ...

In the final years of his life, the author of The Lord of the Rings published one of his least-known stories, and it deserves ...

For his part, Tolkien famously disliked allegory, which he believed reduced a work to being derivative, according to Raggio. “When he saw people saying a work was allegorical, he also saw them ...

The updated edition of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien includes an additional 150 letters that were originally omitted to deliver a book that was deemed a “publishable length” in 1981.