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...
The Blue Wizards Can Solve a Serious “Rings of Power” Issue
The “Rings of Power” team is facing an interesting challenge. They’re trying to create a Middle-earth story about a part of Tolkien’s world with, well, almost no clear-cut characters. Sure, there are the familiar faces that we all know and love, like Galadriel, Isildur, Elrond, Annatar,...
The corruption of the elves and Adar’s (Potential?) origins: Francesco Lionetti
There are less than four months to go until the release of "The Rings of Power", and the controversy inherent in some of the choices presented by Amazon now remain to rage incessantly. One of the elements that most frightens the fandom is Adar's character,...
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,...