What if I told you that the question of whether balrogs have wings at all has been vexing Tolkien scholars for decades? The source of the problem is that all of the language that Tolkien used to ...

Susana Polo is a senior entertainment writer at Polygon, specializing in pop culture and genre fare, with a primary expertise in comic books. Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. And whether it ...

While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films and TV shows are closer than you might imagine. The first book in J R R ...

THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...

Here are a few of the storylines we think might come to pass in season 3 based on what we know from Tolkien’s work as well as the threads left hanging in the finale. Canonically speaking ...

Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as Thorin wandered the Earth up to 42,000 years ago. Now a new study in the ...

Tom Emanuel receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs ...

Christopher Tolkien, who edited and published the posthumous works of his father, Lord of the Rings writer JRR Tolkien, has died aged 95. The news was confirmed by the Tolkien Society, which ...

Maps have always been an important part of Tolkien’s world ... The Rings of Power season two. New posters from the season are ...

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In both cases, fans know that it is hopeless. Eregion will fall and Númenor will flood, just as Tolkien wrote it. But the beauty of the Rings of Power and The Lord of the Rings franchise as a ...