The RoPendices: Echoes of the First Age
Co-authors: Jessica and Sabrina Tolkien fans fell in love with the Special Feature Appendices included with the Extended Editions of The Lord of the Rings, gaining new appreciation and insight into the monumental task of bringing Middle-earth to life onscreen. In the same spirit, the RoPendices...
EXCLUSIVE: The Dark Wizard’s identity revealed for The Rings of Power Season 3
Ever since The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, set in Tolkien's historical Second Age, was known to feature a wizard or wizards, fans immediately leapt to consider what was known about the so-called 'Blue Wizards'. These are the only ones that are, in...
One Streamer to Rule Them All? Netflix’s deal to buy WB
Introduction On December 5th, it was announced that Netflix had secured a deal to purchase parts of Warner Bros. Discovery, with a total value of $82.7 billion. This has major implications for the overall film and television industry, and there are a lot of factors in play. For...
All Númenor leaks, all the time – Rings of Power Season 3
We are back with more juicy hints about Season 3, and this time they range from something we have probably seen in a recent set leak, to a major spoiler that fans have theorised for a while as a really cool option for the show...
Irrevocable destruction or outright fraud? Selling single “Tolkien words”
Over at the Tolkien Collector's Guide site (TCG) a user going by the name Aelfwine recently made an astonishing post: there is a company claiming to sell single words "carefully removed" out of a handwritten Tolkien letter (and authenticated, obviously). In fact, the whole business...