Why The Second- Age Aesthetically & Tonally Will Feel Different From the Third: Francesco Lionetti
One of the biggest problems related to the acceptance of the Amazon project by the world fandom lies in the appearance that Middle-earth will have in the show. The teaser trailer of "The Rings of Power" and the photos by Vanity Fair have left many...
The Languages of the Second Age
J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium is a remarkable piece of world-building, even moreso at the time The Lord of the Rings was published than today, when terms such as "world-building" have entered our lexicon, largely through attempts to imitate Tolkien, or some of his many imitators. Tolkien's...
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Onomastics
[caption id="attachment_16984" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Theo (Tyroe Muhafidin) gazes at a broken sword he holds in his hand, in a publicity photo from Amazon Studios' upcoming "The Rings of Power" series.[/caption] "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." —Phil Karlton I once...
Translation Conventions in Tolkien and Tolkien Adaptations
The past is a foreign country. —L. P. Hartley My corollary to this rather well-known quote is: "The past is a foreign language," and I like it well enough that sometimes I forget it was not the original quote. When watching films and television shows set in...