Lord of the Rings lore is rich, deep, and sometimes weird. From mysterious creatures to unknown fates, Middle-earth is filled ...

Many of Tolkien's Middle-earth denizens have extremely lengthy lives - and then there are Elves. How long do these "immortal" ...

Famously, Tolkien was very critical of Hitler and of fascism, arguably because he supported an even more conservative, less demotic and less modern form of racial-cultural bigotry! That is at least in ...

I suspect Tolkien would be pretty ticked off at his would-be defenders on the right. After all, “The Lord of the Rings” is about nothing if not different races — some with pointy ears, ...

In an interview, Tolkien, while not specifically characterizing the Jews as warlike, nonetheless spoke to an explicit connection with biblical characterizations of the Jews, with the biblical ...

I suspect Tolkien would be pretty ticked off at his would-be defenders on the right. After all, “The Lord of the Rings” is about nothing if not different races — some with pointy ears, ...

Tolkien’s letters show the ways that real-world ideas about race influenced Middle-earth. He wrote “I do think of the ‘Dwarves’ like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations.” ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is touching on the origin story of the orcs, created by the dark lord Morgoth at the dawn of time. But what’s the real story in Tolkien’s lore? Not ...

It’s more than 20 years since Peter Jackson’s blockbusting three-part adaptation of Tolkien’s epic, The Lord of the Rings, was first released.Now it has returned for a three-day-run at movie ...