The Return of the King is a powerful moment of emotional payoff for the entire trilogy. The One Ring has been destroyed, ...

What was Beleriand? For an incoming fan first trying to familiarize themselves with the lore of LOTR and beyond, the ...

Despite my rather low expectations going into the game, Shadow of War’s story left me pleasantly surprised, drawing heavily on Middle-earth lore. It either greatly expanded on some of the more ...

The narrative across both games successfully blends a mélange of established lore with original content that all feels at home within the internal logic of Tolkien's fantasy world. Middle-earth's ...

Amazon is running a buy one, get one 50% off book sale through October 26, and plenty of J.R.R. Tolkien books and box sets ...

The other lore deviation in this scene is the Barrow ... supply of Mithril attempting to make the nine rings for Men of Middle-earth. This exhaustion and disarray creates space for Annatar to ...

And like scripture, Tolkien's writing, particularly in texts like The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, leaves certain elements of the lore up to the interpretation ...

"Wētā Workshop has been trusted with JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth universe for more than 25 years, and over that time we have built up a deep understanding of the lore and a real love of ...