There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller, the man behind ...

Prime Video’s The Rings of Power Season 3 has begun filming, and the fans of LOTR might not have to wait for long to see the story of the creation of the One Ring, and the fan-favorite characters migh ...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel and Peter Jackson's film adaptations, Gandalf was famous in the Shire for his fireworks.

The cast of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, including Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, and Cate Blanchett, have been in many more ...

In fact, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, Gandalf does not even arrive on Middle-earth until the Third Age, while The Rings of Power takes place in the Second Age.

Tolkien’s Faith What will delight lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien most is the portrait of the man that is drawn in the pages of Holly Ordway’s biography. In the final chapters, she summarizes his life as the ...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s name lives on as the godfather of fantasy. Like the Grimm Brothers and Charles Dickens, Tolkien arguably changed the literary landscape in a way that had not been done before.

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is perhaps the most influential fantasy narrative of the past century.

Ian McKellen as Gandalf in 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies'; J.R.R. Tolkien in his study at Merton College, Oxford. Warner Bros./courtesy Everett; Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton ...

Tolkien lifted Gandalf's name directly from Old Norse myth - Gandálfr from the Völuspá, to be precise. Meaning Elf of the wand, Gandálfr's presence is felt in Rings of Power's ...