One of The Lord of the Rings has many great characters, but one in particular also had a wildly important but largely ...

One of the biggest mysteries around them is what some may call the favoritism shown to Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen) compared to ...

I might be an old-school Tolkien scholar but I’m no prescriptivist, and this is one of the few changes to The Hobbit I ...

Though they were created as lesser than the Valar, they were still influential in their own right, and the most powerful of the Maiar was Sauron (Charlie Vickers), the Second Dark Lord and Lord of ...

After years of legal battles, Peter Jackson’s movies centered around the dark lord Sauron and a young hobbit who embarks on a perilous quest to destroy the ruling ring destroyed box-office and ...

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The LOTR and The Hobbit were written during World War II. Many say Tolkien drew inspiration from industrialization, using Mordor as an example of the destruction of nature to further Sauron’s ...

The Lord of the Rings has maintained its cultural significance since the 1950s through books, movies, and now television, expanding a fandom that stretches across generations, which makes it an ...