The Lord of the Rings is a franchise with many strange details, but none are as strange as the ones about wizards like ...

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel poked fun at Ioreth, a Gondorian healer who helped Aragorn after the Battle of ...

Tolkien spent about 17 years working on The Lord of the Rings. We understand that this is a trilogy, but if we’re counting the combined number of pages based on their first editions, Martin’s The ...

He was soon named Mithrandir (Grey Pilgrim) by the Elves and Gandalf by the men. It was later revealed that he was the most powerful of the Istari in Middle-Earth. He became a member of the White ...

Cozy Lord of the Rings life sim game Tales of the Shire may have been hit with a couple of delays, but as it approaches its release this July, its creative director says it was "really important ...

From the Shire to Mount Doom, Frodo’s path was mapped with the Church calendar in mind — a quiet testament to Tolkien’s Catholic imagination. Illustration of Mary and Gabriel from Agostino ...

JRR Tolkien spent almost 18 months in Hull and East Yorkshire recovering from trench fever after World War One. The landscape of the area is said to have been the influence of some of his stories ...

The wizards of Middle-earth are perhaps some of the most fascinating characters in all of J.R.R. Tolkien’s texts. One of the biggest mysteries around them is what some may call the favoritism ...

People in the UK believe that Harry Potter, Spider-Man and Gandalf would vote for the same party as themselves, while Darth Vader, Cruella de Vil and Joffrey Baratheon would vote for a political rival ...

As a teen, authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien opened up worlds for me that were both fantastic and faith-filled. I wouldn’t come to understand the deeper Catholic motifs in The Lord of the ...