Tolkien

Authors

Andy Serkis Is Having a Conversation with Gollum — and This Time It's a Memoir

Andy Serkis's forthcoming memoir 'My Pressures' promises a dialogue between the actor and his most famous characters. James Whitmore considers whether that's literature or a very expensive author Q&A.

Literature

The Pope, Gandalf, and the Machines: Leo XIV's Unlikely Literary Manifesto

Pope Leo XIV has cited J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf in a new encyclical on artificial intelligence. Whether you find it poignant or absurd rather depends on whether you think literature and theology have anything useful to say to each other.