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Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power begins with an info dump. Elves! Trees! War! Destruction, death, and finally — a great peace. But is it enough exposition? Due to the unusually ...

The Lord of the Rings was quite faithfully adapted, and it even included Tolkien's first major LotR villain, just not as expected. The children's book The Hobbit was released in 1937, while LotR was ...

Morgoth, "Black Foe of the World" in Sindarin, was the big bad of the Tolkien legendarium before Sauron came on the scene, and if J.R.R. Tolkien's original writings are to be taken as canon, the big ...

In the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's books, the first creatures to ever exist are the Ainur, created by Eru Ilúvatar, the creator of everything. The Ainur are also known as the Holy Ones. When the world ...

"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" has arrived, but with the first two episodes dropping, those not deeply versed in the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien likely have plenty of questions. Indeed, "The ...

Before The Lord of the Rings, before the Third and even the Second Age, before Sauron and the Rings of Power, there was already darkness in Middle-earth. This darkness took on many names over time.

The Rings of Power’s third episode showed the War of Wrath still looms over all of Middle-earth. Here’s all the ways Morgoth still matters. The Rings of Power takes place during Middle-earth’s Second ...

Warning: The following article contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2, Episode 7. Yet you can’t keep a good villain down, and Morgoth subsequently entered Arda (of ...

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