A Second Age Onomasticon – Part I: Places
Amazon Studios' streaming series, The Rings of Power, is set to premiere in a little over two months from now. Set in a period Tolkien referred to as the "Second Age", many of the characters are different from those beloved by fans of Tolkien's most...
The Rings of Power Dialect Coach and a War of the Rohirrim Original Name
Dialect Coach Leith McPherson Marketing for Amazon Studios' The Rings of Power series finally seems to be picking up, but many mysteries remain. One long-standing mystery has been the identity of the linguist or linguists Amazon has been consulting for the show. As this is a...
Concerning Harfoots
My dear Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and Proudfoots. —Bilbo Baggins With less than three months to go until the release of Amazon's The Rings of Power, the major news of the past few weeks is that Empire Magazine has published...
Charles Edwards Officially Announced as Portraying Celebrimbor
One of the most important figures of the Second Age is the Elf known as Celebrimbor. Celebrimbor was one of the Ñoldor Elves, and (in most versions of the story) a descendant of Fëanor. Like his famous grandfather Fëanor, Celebrimbor (whose name means "Silver Fist"...