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Despite its unassuming appearance, the One Ring from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was nearly indestructible. In the chapter "The Shadow of the Past" from The Fellowship of the Ring ...
During his lifetime, J. R. R. Tolkien only published two Middle-earth novels -- namely The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings-- but he never stopped working on the lore of his legendarium. After he ...
The Rings of Power season 2 has focused heavily on Celebrimbor and Annatar's quest to forge those titular pieces of jewellery, but the cracks in this working relationship are starting to show ...
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power opens at the close of a great war: the war against Morgoth, Middle-earth’s dark god, a story that Tolkien only told in The Silmarillion, and how Morgoth vs ...
In one of Tolkien’s versions of the story of Arien, guide of the Sun, published in The History of Middle-earth, Morgoth rapes Arien, prompting her to leave Arda forever.
To Frodo, Galadriel is a helping hand. But in Tolkien’s legendarium, Galadriel had a life of ambition and adventure, in which she spurned the gifts of the gods to seek power, justice, and a ...
Tolkien and Edith became very close and by the summer of 1909 they had fallen in love. However, when Father Morgan found out in the autumn, he was not best pleased.
Sauron wasn't Middle-earth's first Dark Lord. Heading into the premiere of Amazon's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,' here's everything viewers should know about Morgoth.
Anyone familiar with the concept of elves, as told in The Lord of the Rings, would know that the creatures are almost immortal in the world of Tolkien. Although they can die from unnatural causes ...
In a beautiful and moving moment that stands as one of the show’s best testaments to J.R.R. Tolkien, Celebrimbor told Galadriel it’s not strength that will defeat the darkness, it is light, an ...
Amazon Prime Video’s The Rings of Power series is a prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Based on the author’s work, the series is set during the Second Age, a period of ...
In The Rings of Power season 2, episode 6, we hear about Fëanor and his hammer – but you might be wondering just who this character from J.R.R. Tolkien's works is, as well as what his relevance ...