Tolkien portrays the Eldar, the name Oromë gave to the elves, using music as a descriptor of different hosts: the Noldor were “renowned in song,” and the Teleri made music to, and by, the sea ...

Ismael Cruz Córdova plays a Silvan Elf new to J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology and Morfydd Clark is Galadriel all over in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." It wasn't just baby Sauron who ...

When Tolkien says “a while,” he means it, too. A timeline in the appendices of “The Lord of the Rings” shows that they camp out there for three years before marching on Mordor.

To fulfill the mission, Frodo needed an unlikely group of companions, a fellowship of several races in Middle-earth. One of ...

Ismael Cruz Córdova plays a Silvan Elf new to J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology and Morfydd Clark is Galadriel all over in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” It wasn’t just baby Sauron ...

Tolkien’s characterization of the races of Middle-earth comes with its own baggage that still lives on in D&D. Elves are the favored and chosen people of the gods, characterized as fair and ...

The BBC has a fascinating, exhaustive report on why the Elves of Middle-Earth sound as if they might have come from Wales. Given that Tolkien was one of ...

This film doesn’t actually mark Collins’ first professional brush with a Tolkien movie, though. “I, ironically, had actually auditioned to play one of the Elven characters [in The Hobbit ...

Essentially, before Tolkien, elves were primarily metaphorical, for the incomprehensible danger of nature, including human nature. After Tolkien, elves were an aesthetic, primarily based on the ...

As Tolkien later established in the Rings books, Legolas is the son of the Elvenking Thranduil, who is in the Hobbit novel, and since elves are immortal, it stands to reason that he would have ...