Out of all the iconic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's books, Elves, otherwise known as the Firstborn, are the most dynamic and ...

The army that defeated Sauron at the end of the Second Age was the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, but Elves and Men worked ...

For nearly five years, entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has been attempting that feat of which magicians and daredevils have ...

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.

However, in Tolkien's original material, this battle has a different significance, one that Jackson and company changed when they added one particular element: Elves. In Jackson’s film ...

It's the vast, eerie swamp that Frodo (Elijah Wood), Sam (Sean Astin), and Gollum (Andy Serkis) venture into in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, littered with corpses of Elves, Men ...

The Season 1 finale ends with Celebrimbor forging the three elven rings, so we know the others are soon to follow. In Tolkien's work, the elves' rings are the last of the original 19 rings to be ...

Tolkien describes multiple origins for Orcs, one of which suggests they were Elves corrupted by Morgoth. This creates an unanswered theological question: If Orcs were originally Elves, do they ...

In "The Lost Road," Tolkien followed father-son pairs whose names all had the same meaning — "Elf-friend" and "Bliss-friend." The last pairing was that of Elendil (played by Lloyd Owen in The ...