"Many that die deserve life." Tom Bombadil butchers a beloved Tolkien quote in a jam-packed installment of The Rings of Power ...

Celebrimbor is an important character in the lore of The Lord of the Rings, with a history central to the creation of the ...

Sauron's 'fair form' Annatar is the latest guise taken on by Charlie Vickers' Sauron in The Rings of Power season 2. While he ...

Should we care about how Gandalf got his staff? In 'The Rings of Power' Season 2, one mystery box reveals a bigger problem ...

Like Satan, who was once an angel known as Lucifer, Sauron was originally an angelic being himself called Mairon. As one of the Maiar (the race of immortal spirits from which Gandalf also derives), he ...

The film is like an essay During spring the village is soaked in flood Its Easter Eve The villagers are gathering for a strange old ritual in order to watch over The Crucified until the dawn ...

He wrote in his Unfinished Tales that the name Gandalf means "Elf of the Wand," in reference to both Gandalf's staff and Men's misconception that he was an Elf. (Notably, "Gandalf" is just the ...

In the Unfinished Tales, Tolkien says Celebrimbor “had an almost ‘dwarvish’ obsession with crafts.” And “his greatest friend was Narvi.” Together, the pair of them oversaw the building ...

The Maiar are primordial spirits meant to assist the Valar, but Tolkien explained in his Unfinished Tales that when Sauron became a threat, the Valar chose five Maiar to send to aid the Free Peoples ...

Tolkien speaks of this time with a little more detail in the Unfinished Tales. He notes, “Elrond was able to extricate himself (from the siege of Eregion), but he was forced away northwards ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga is a seminal work of fantasy that spawned one of the best film trilogies ever created. Tolkien's story of good vs. evil is built around timeless themes of ...

Boko Haram’s audacious attacks in Yobe have served notice to the Tinubu presidency that tales of the Islamic extremist group ...