Viggo Mortensen got up to some pretty wild things while filming the Lord of the Rings movies, and some of them ended up being ...

As an example, “Rohirrim” emphasizes Tolkien’s insistence on hoping beyond hope. In the author’s world, true heroism was not so much about abounding in courage, strength, or wit, but rather the ...

For years, fans told me Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game, not Warhammer 40,000, was Games Workshop’s best wargame - I should have listened.

Dungeons and Dragons’ Orcs are more complex and sympathetic than ever, which sits badly with the murderous simplicity of DnD ...

Dec. 24 (UPI) -- New Line Cinema's anime movie, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, is set for digital home video ...

In 1937, English author J.R.R. Tolkien penned a children’s book called “The Hobbit,” or “There and Back Again,” which ignited what would become one of the most popular franchises of all ...

Tolkien would describe his four years there — from ages 4 to 8 — as “the longest ... “I never expected to survive,” he recalled in 1941 in a letter to his son Michael, then fighting in another world ...

first LOTR movie to hit theaters since The Hobbit ... Hammerhand prepares himself and his allies to fight back against them, with the war leading to the eventual establishment of Helm's Deep.

In The Lord of the Rings’ lore Glorfindel is a powerful ... Glorfindel then dies once while fighting a Balrog but is resurrected by Manwë, as his time in Middle-earth is not yet done.

We’ve become massive Tolkien fans just from doing this show ... giant spider Shelob in one of the season’s most memorable fight sequences. “Yeah, I put my body on the line for that one ...