The Wizards in the Second Age
First, I open with a necessary introduction. I am not a native English speaker, and the text may be, for many of you, not entirely correct. For this reason i apologize in advance and hope, with your help, to improve my use of the language....
Top 10 Tolkien’s Greatest Written Battles
Throughout Tolkien's legendarium, we bear witness to a bountiful amount of enriching and detailed fights, skirmishes, battles, and wars that show us either the beginning of a conflict or the end of one. Today, I wanted to go over what I think are the top...
Andy Serkis Narrates The Silmarillion
Actor and motion capture artist Andy Serkis has narrated a new unabridged audiobook of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. The audiobook was released on June 22, 2023 by HarperCollins. The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic works by Professor J.R.R. Tolkien that chronicles the early periods of...
How Closely Does The Rings of Power Follow What Tolkien Actually Wrote? (Part IIa – Characters: Elves)
In this series of articles I am considering the locations, characters, and events of the first season of The Rings of Power with regard to how well they match anything Tolkien actually wrote about the Second Age (or First Age, where relevant), whether or not...