Tolkien's Middle-earth is riddled with enemies, and some are so vile not even the most pitiable backstories in Lord of the ...

The Henry Mount Charles story has everything: rock’n’roll, a burning castle and even an apparently ersatz landed title. The “Lord” part of “Lord Henry” is just a fiction cooked up by ...

Sauron was a cunning villain, and Frodo's journey to destroy him was no easy task. Still, it seems that the Dark Lord could ...

Lord Henry Mountcharles of Slane Castle is one of the most remarkable people I ever met in my life. For a fella born into the landed gentry, with a public schoolboy education and a posh accent he ...

The first part of this investigation into whether J.R.R. Tolkien's work is racist examines the creatures of Middle-earth, ...

where he was biffed on the nose by the rumbustious Irish peer Lord Mount Charles. Among his other Elstree contemporaries were The Boy Friend composer Sandy Wilson, who Blount recalled was forever ...

Arriving at Lake Taupō Holiday Resort felt like entering a fun park: heated pool, swim-up bar, outdoor cinema, waterpark, ...

Viewers will spot the oxygen tank in the background when Henry appears in forthcoming RTE documentary, Henry Mount Charles — A Lord in Slane. Along with his life as a publisher, running as a ...

On 21 July, 1969 Neil Armstrong, the first human being to set foot on the moon, uttered the famous words: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Our three small steps towards heaven ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is the pope’s special envoy for the Mass of consecration of the Church of the Baptism of Christ, January 10. The site is traditionally believed to ...

From the blog of Allen S. Maller at The Times of Israel ...

Just as out of all the women of the world, a man’s wife is his beloved, so, too, out of all the nations of the world, the Jews are God’s ...