Sméagol's name has some interesting origins. In Tolkien's invented language Westron, his name is Trahald, which literally means "burrowing". His name is also related to the great dragon Smaug, where ...

Nadia Grace Mullings is a contributor and journalist for Game Rant, and has been a big fan of video gaming from a young age. Strong first impressions included point-and-click games on an old PC (way ...

Peter Jackson and his team had extensive plans going into The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Pre-production began several years before cameras started rolling, giving them time to iron out the script ...

Wondering where to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King online? Then you’ve come to the right place. It is an epic fantasy adventure film released in 2003 that follows Sméagol, the ...

Our favorite cave-dwelling, ring-obsessed character from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy is getting his very own game. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a new, narrative ...

LOS ANGELES — The Return of the King, like its predecessor The Two Towers, opens with a flashback. The halflings Deagol and Smeagol are fishing when Deagol's line hooks a fish, pulling him into the ...

The Rings of Power season 2 has introduced a new type of halfling: the Stoors. Not to be confused with the Harfoots, this new race are seen to live in their own community in Rhûn. Intriguingly, though ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

The Lord of the Rings franchise, by J.R.R. Tolkien, is a world of magic and darkness. The warring sides of good and evil battle over complete domination of the universe in the form of a single ring.