Speaking to the “Geek's Guide to the Galaxy” podcasters, science fiction writer Andrew Duncan reflected on a short story he had written in 2001 in which he told a sympathetic tale using J. R. R. Tolkien’s “orc” characters. It seems that the story was inspired by a subliminal racism he sensed...

When John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s youngest son Christopher began accumulating all of Tolkien’s unpublished writings in an attempt to construct the full expanse of Middle Earth, the universe Tolkien spent his life developing erupted around him. A LOVE WORTH WRITING FOR “The Lay of Aotrou and...