The Middle-earth saga's first attempt at anime, The War of the Rohirrim also put a female protagonist in the lead role, an ...

If there was ever a character to attempt to describe as a “Mary Sue,” with unearned talent, it is not the thousands-year old elf that Tolkien repeatedly says is among the most powerful and ...

(Tolkien died in 1973 ... battlefield troop movements and the journeys of the novels’ characters. “It’s one thing to write off a feature as, well, magic. It’s another to feel like ...