As J.R.R. Tolkien imagined them, orcs are supposed to be scary. They are violent. They are sadistic. They are cruel. They hate everything good. They love torturing their enemies. They’re also very ...

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Sauron is pure evil. He is the acolyte of Morgoth, a Satan figure in Tolkien’s mythos. Morgoth creates sun-hating minions, the orcs, during his reign of ...

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Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. After Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) stop Adar (Joseph Mawle) from escaping in ...

J.R.R. Tolkien brought us the orc, and like most things Tolkien, it has become a staple of the fantasy genre. They were the perfect evil mercenaries for an epic fantasy battle: growling, ugly, ...

“Udûn” is The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s first full-fledged battle episode, and fans of the Prime Video series certainly get their money’s worth in terms of sheer blockbuster spectacle.

It’s been more than 20 years since the world fell under “Harry Potter’s” spell — but hindsight is also 20/20. And some fans of J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world, including Jon Stewart, have been spotting ...

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“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” Amazon Prime Video’s massive fantasy TV series based on the works of author J.R.R. Tolkien, made its biggest splash yet at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, ...