Simon Tolkien is the author of No Man’s Land, Orders from Berlin, The King of Dia­monds, The Inher­i­tance, and Final Wit­ness. He stud­ied mod­ern his­to­ry at Trin­i­ty Col­lege, Oxford, and went on to become a Lon­don bar­ris­ter spe­cial­iz­ing in crim­i­nal defense. Simon is the grand­son of J.R.R. Tolkien and is a direc­tor of the Tolkien Estate. In 2022 he was named as series con­sul­tant to the Ama­zon TV series The Rings of Pow­er. He lives with his wife, vin­tage fash­ion author Tra­cy Tolkien, and their two chil­dren, Nicholas and Anna, in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it www​.simon​tolkien​.com.