Amazon Prime Video‘s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will harken back to Peter Jackson’s original trilogy by relying predominantly on practical effects and prosthetics in bringing the Orcs ...

In general, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was a much smaller-scale story than its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, but there are still aspects of it that are curious, including the Five Armies. Part of ...

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For a few years now, [Jomegat] has been thinking about Sting, the sword wielded by [Bilbo Baggins] and later [Frodo] in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Sting glows blue whenever an orc is near.

In the first film in the Hobbit trilogy, we meet a hobbit known as Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm). He begins to tell a story that happened to him many years ago. We turn back in time to a younger Bilbo ...

After seeing "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" at one of the celebrated midnight showings earlier this month, I experienced the following: joy, frustration, bewilderment and excitement. In the last ...

On my way out of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, I ran into two older members of my church. Their reaction was identical: disappointment. “The movie was fine. But Tolkien seemed to get left ...