The Lord of the Rings franchise is expanding with a series of new movies, making the opportunity for book characters to be ...

Suggestions include Doderic, Andwise, and Fredegar. While the Stranger isn't feeling any of those, the names are fun nods to Hobbits briefly mentioned in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ...

Already in the seventh-century Chronicle of Fredegar, this tripartite model was invoked by a Merovingian queen to prophesy the fate of her descendants. This expert commentary sets out to understand ...