Amazon Prime Video‘s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will harken back to Peter Jackson’s original trilogy by relying predominantly on practical effects and prosthetics in bringing the Orcs ...

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So you're new to Middle-earth. You've never seen The Lord of the Rings, nor read The Hobbit, nor read any J.R.R. Tolkien book at all. You can't tell Gollum from Gandalf, and you couldn't find a horde ...

Long before the movies -- before, even, Bakshi's attempts, before Dungeons & amp; Dragons appropriated the character classes -- Tolkien's world was complete and fully peopled. The books captured my ...

At the climax of the last of the many sprawling, outrageous action set pieces in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — a few with some textual basis in Tolkien, many without — comes a visual conceit ...