Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power begins with an info dump. Elves! Trees! War! Destruction, death, and finally — a great peace. But is it enough exposition? Due to the unusually ...
They’re searching for something. Some sort of weapon, perhaps? The soldiers of Sauron aren’t just taking captives to dig secret tunnels on The Rings of Power; they’re ransacking towns. Arondir thinks ...
In the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's books, the first creatures to ever exist are the Ainur, created by Eru Ilúvatar, the creator of everything. The Ainur are also known as the Holy Ones. When the world ...
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Adar told Galadriel his plan for defeating Sauron forever during episode six of The Rings of Power season two. The Uruk leader wants to combine the strength of the three elven rings with something ...
The Lord of the Rings gave the world two of its greatest villains in Sauron and Morgoth, but Morgoth was so much worse, as ...
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” has arrived, but with the first two episodes dropping, those not deeply versed in the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien likely have plenty of questions. Indeed, “The ...
Every Tolkien fan knows that Sauron is the principal antagonist of The Lord of the Rings, a story that takes place during the Third Age of Middle-earth. However, before his rise to prominence, ...
The Lord of the Rings was quite faithfully adapted, and it even included Tolkien's first major LotR villain, just not as expected. The children's book The Hobbit was released in 1937, while LotR was ...
Morgoth looms over The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Though the War of Wrath ended with Morgoth’s defeat, his touch spreads across all of Arda into the Second Age and beyond. Morgoth, also ...