The Lord of the Rings was full of fantasy languages created by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, and Quenya may be the one most people ...

To combat Sauron's evil, five Maiar were sent to Middle Earth in human form, becoming the five wizards. Their leader, Saruman the White, was tasked with spearheading the fight against Sauron and spent ...

The Lord of the Rings uses magic liberally and doesn’t explain it much, so why is it so rare and weird in The Rings of Power?

How faithful is the new season of Rings of Power to the source material? I've analyzed up to episode 6 of season 2.

The Rings of Power's Cynthia Addai-Robinson on Miriel's inevitable fate (according to Tolkien), the huge stakes of the Valar ...

When we spoke to JD Payne—who shares showrunner duties with Patrick McKay in Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”—in a virtual interview two years ago, we were impressed by his ...

Taking all of this into account, Morgoth's crown should not still be in Middle-earth at the time of The Rings of Power. That said, it does resemble the Iron Crown as it is described in lore. Morgoth ...

And with the repetition of one specific word in the latest episodes, the real endgame of the show already seems surprisingly close — while adding a new wrinkle to the lore surrounding the One Ring ...

And though all of the plots are solid, The Rings of Power is doing too much. The show has to carefully spread out time, ...