Profiles English writer, poet, and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, describing the influence the rural English West Midlands where he grew up had on his writing.

The early life of orphaned author and professor J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds companionship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at his school.

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young...