23 Mar 2012: Sam Jordison: A scrap about the relative merits of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis left a Michigan man with a bloody ear. What's your favourite experience of book-based scuffles?
9 Feb 2012: Ben Child: As Billy Connolly joins the roll call of familiar British stars that includes Martin Freeman and Stephen Fry, how can The Hobbit maintain the originality and mystery of the trilogy?
Newly released papers reveal JRR Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings, was deemed second rate by members of the 1961 Nobel committee. Do you think they made a mistake?
6 Jan 2012: Ben Child: The dark arts of film demanded Jackson ham up the love story in LOTR, but bringing the Necromancer – later Sauron – into The Hobbit's denouement could break the story's spell altogether
22 Dec 2011:
Since Lord of the Rings, the actor has avoided big-budget epics. But now he's reprising his hobbit role and starring in a lavish Treasure Island adaptation