With all the magic of Middle-earth, these innovative hobbit houses appear to be plucked from the pages of The Lord of the ...

The bucolic estate is home to an 18-hole golf course, equestrian stables, sporting clay courses, and also, real life Hobbit Houses. Paul Mihailides is the founder of The Preserve. He did not set ...

“In a hole ... real-life history as well: it is near here that Emperor Charles I of Spain and V of Germany spent his last years, in the Monastery of Yuste. The project that kept Zhelvanava and Muñoz ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth — the world of The Lord of the Rings and now the new animated film The War of the Rohirrim — was born, first and foremost, from Tolkien’s intense and lifelong love for ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

The acclaimed coastal scientist Orrin Pilkey, who died at the age of 90 on Sunday, had more stories than an old wet dog. A few years back, we were sitting around the kitchen table in the ...

Now you can, with a newly opened behind-the-scenes experience at the Hobbiton Movie Set showing fans the craftsmanship that goes into bringing The Lord of the Rings’ The Shire to life.

The move by the former chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp had set him at odds with three of his other five children, prompting a real-life power battle within the family, similar to the HBO series ...