In the 1960s, Hollywood’s great white whale was The Lord of the Rings. Many notable filmmakers tried and failed to get an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic off the ground — the Beatles even ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Having changed fantasy forever while simultaneously inspiring countless other fantastical worlds and fairy stories, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest literary works of our ...

John Hurt had a brush with Lord Of The Rings during his long career (Picture: Reuters) While he may be best remembered for the likes of Alien, The Elephant Man, Midnight Express and Harry Potter, the ...

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy is an astonishing achievement, and played a big part in getting me seriously interested in film. But whilst it is widely considered the best attempt to put J.