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

How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... Isildur actor Maxim Baldry was focused on grappling with the giant spider Shelob in one of the season’s most memorable fight sequences. ...