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"...
Dueling Canons
In The Return of the King, as the combined armies of Gondor and Rohan stand before the Black Gate, greatly outnumbered and completely encircled, the vast forces of Mordor closing in, Aragorn, Isildur's heir, speaks these stirring words: Hold your ground! Hold your ground! Sons of...
Tolkien on Adaptations
"The canons of narrative in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies." —J.R.R. Tolkien From September 6th to 9th,...
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...