The War of the Rohirrim handled its Lord of the Rings trilogy ties with all the subtlety of an oliphaunt. The film boasts a ...
J.R.R. Tolkien revealed the real hero of The Lord of the Rings. It’s not Frodo or Aragorn—discover who truly earned the title ...
The Middle-earth saga's first attempt at anime, The War of the Rohirrim also put a female protagonist in the lead role, an ...
The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia ...
Of course, that’s had a profound effect on my own willingness to kill characters at the drop of a hat. So thanks, Tolkien, for Ned Stark. And the Red Wedding. And Jon Snow (though that one ...
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 ...
In the second part of this investigation into whether J.R.R. Tolkien's work is racist, his portrayal of 'Men is examined, ...