Growing up, my dad and I bonded over sprawling fictional universes (in case anyone wondered how nerds are created). He got me to slog through the entire Dune saga, his personal favorite, which I ...

Tolkien brings the duology that began with The Palace at the End of the Sea to a close with this stirring novel of an American antifascist fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Theo Sterling, an American ...

Everyone loves "The Lord of the Rings." They make up a quarter of the top 12 movies of all time on IMDb's top 250 movie list, for goodness' sake. "The Hobbit" films are less grand but still ...

After selling out earlier this week, The Complete History of Middle-earth: Collector's Box Set is back in stock at Amazon with a massive discount. The 5,440-page, three-book collector's set is on sale ...

Though fans generally consider the extended editions of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films to be the definitive versions, most of the additional scenes that they included did not impact the ...

In the intersection of complicated family politics and historic grandeur lies House of Guinness, starring Anthony Boyle and an ensemble. Created by Steven Knight, the drama revolves around the ...

The Rings Of Power has been an undeniable bomb for Prime Video, which is a huge bummer for the streamer that invested an estimated $1 billion to get it made. First season episodes cost $20 million ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From retreading the footsteps of the Fellowship to exploring an uncharted part of Middle-earth's ...

Editor’s note: For more than seven decades, Edith Fox kept her Holocaust story inside. She sometimes told friends she wanted the words “Holocaust Survivor” on her tombstone. But she didn’t want to ...

Tolkien, being a dry old stick, did like it – and it inspired him to doodle the “satirical fantasy” (as he called it) we have here. It’s a series of chunks of verse and prose in Latin and English, ...

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