Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Silmarillion and the future fate of Númenor in the Tolkien legendarium.Sometimes, even the strangest conspiracy theories turn out to be true, ...

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 ...

These days, the biggest fad in pop culture is trying to build a complex mythology around any and every franchise you can find. Inter-movie continuity has grown beyond Marvel superheroes to everything ...

Mark Hospodar has been an avid gamer ever since he fired up the original Medal of Honor on his PS1. A history teacher by training, Mark has branched out into the fields of fiction and non-fiction ...

Númenor was a star-shaped island situated between Middle-earth and the elven Undying Lands and existed for over 3300 years in Tolkien’s mythology. It was formed some 6000 odd years before the events ...

Now that "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" has finished its first season, what are Tolkien fans to do as we await the next installment? Never fear: The Tolkien literary estate seems to have ...

In 1977, four years after author J.R.R. Tolkien’s death, his son Christopher completed and published his father’s most ambitious and sprawling book: The Silmarillion. Part Lord of the Rings backstory, ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

Joseph has always had a passion for film, TV, and gaming. He's been writing entertainment articles since 2011, contributing his work to the Reading Eagle newspaper and websites like Ready Steady Cut ...

The Rings of Power finale took viewers on a ride with solved mysteries, reunions, and goodbyes. However, The Lord of the Rings TV series still left plenty of questions for future seasons. When it ...