How Will Rings of Power’s Season 3 Time Jump Impact the War of the Elves and Sauron?
Has there ever been a season of a show that was more certain before it was confirmed than “The Rings of Power” Season 3? Seriously, our team at Fellowship of Fans was talking about showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay (AKA ‘McPayne’) doing preliminary work...
What is Philology? – Part I: Traditional Philology
Most fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works are probably aware that Tolkien was a professor. Many of them have likely also heard that he was a philologist—a self-described philologist, even—and that philology was a major influence in the development of Tolkien’s legendarium. But what is a...
A War of the Rohirrim Onomasticon
“Out of these languages are made nearly all the names that appear in my legends. This gives a certain character (a cohesion, a consistency of linguistic style, and an illusion of historicity) to the nomenclature, or so I believe, that is markedly lacking in other...
Rings of Power Showrunners Talk Season Three’s Opening Scene
A couple of days ago, a Q&A involving The Rings of Power showrunners, J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, was conducted, and there were some fascinating revelations to come out of it. Among those revelations was the possibility of another flashback scene being the opening to...
