The Lord of the Rings - Page 9
December 22, 2022 9:01 am
1923's Price Tag is No Joke: Episode Costs as Much as an Yellowstone's Entire Season
This franchise is yee-hawing its way into the competition for the world's most expensive shows just like that.
Crush of the day
December 18, 2022 6:30 pm
Keanu Reeves Went Full Neo to Convince Jackson to Cast Him as This LotR Character
As we've covered before, casting for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies was not untroubled, despite the impressive end result.
December 18, 2022 5:30 pm
We Know Elves Were Gone, but What Happened to Dwarves After LotR?
Did the dwarves follow the elves into the undying lands, or did they just dig their way out of Middle-earth?
December 15, 2022 5:01 pm
Sexism is the New Racism For Rings of Power As It Lands All-Female Director Line-Up
Amazon's Lord of the Rings endeavor steps up the diversity game while it would clearly better off beefing up the writers' room.
December 14, 2022 2:00 pm
Christopher Lee Stopped Talking to Peter Jackson Over Cut LotR Sequence
Christopher Lee was so upset with Peter Jackson's editing choices, he decided to cut him out of his life completely for a while.
December 3, 2022 2:03 pm
One Simple Trick Made Jackson's LotR Elves Superior to RoP's Mainstream Ones
Amazon's Rings of Power may feature more of the elves of Middle-Earth than we have seen on screen before, but Peter Jackson's version of the immortals still takes the cake (or at the least the lembas bread).
November 27, 2022 3:30 pm
Here's What Tolkien Himself Wrote About the "Intensity" of Elf Sex
J.R.R. Tolkien, unlike a significant portion of Middle-earth fanfic writers, did not care at all about writing about sex.
November 26, 2022 8:34 am
Stranger Things 4 Had A Truly Ridiculous Per-Episode Budget
The fourth season of Netflix's Stranger Things was finally released in May-July of this year, ending a more than three-year hiatus since the previous season of the show.
November 25, 2022 3:30 pm
Charlie Vickers Is The Best Part of Rings of Power, And This BTS Photo Proves It
The Rings of Power may be universally hated at this point, but there is no denying that the show definitely has its moments.
November 20, 2022 2:24 pm
Lord of The Rings' Most Useless Heroic Sacrifice Still Bugs Fans
It is no secret that The Lord of the Rings included numerous themes and influences from Tolkien's own experiences with war. In particular the effects of war on people, as well as ideas of sacrifice and death.
November 19, 2022 10:08 am
Warner Bros. Might End Up Repeating Amazing Spider-Man Mistake
David Zaslav's intention to focus on popular franchises could do more harm than good for Warner Bros. A big name franchise does not automatically mean big money.
November 6, 2022 7:37 am
Aragorn and Boromir Shared a Kiss on the Lips in First Lord of the Rings Script
Well, as a matter of fact they did. Not in the initial script of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, though.
November 5, 2022 2:05 pm
Real Christopher Lee Was More Badass Than His LoTR Character
Christopher Lee is most famous for playing villainous characters, including Dracula in various Hammer films, Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, a Bond villain in The Man With The Golden Gun, and that guy who owns a wicker man in The Wicker Man.
November 4, 2022 7:01 pm
Sam Heughan and Liv Tyler Auditioned For the Same LotR Role
Liv Tyler's Arwen had a much more active role in the cinematic Lord of the Rings trilogy compared to J.R.R. Tolkien's original novels, becoming a genuine elvish hero who even saved Frodo from the Black Riders.
November 4, 2022 2:02 pm
Russell Crowe's Reason for Turning Down LotR Role Is Surprisingly Noble
Russell Crowe is well-known for his roles in movies like The Nice Guys, Gladiator, and Cinderella Man.
November 4, 2022 8:02 am
Rings of Power is not a LotR Prequel, According to Producer
Well, given all the liberties, and that's putting it mildly, which The Rings of Power took with the lore of Tolkien's books it is quite nice to see the showrunners admit that their show takes place in some sort of an alternate timeline…
November 2, 2022 1:02 pm
Reddit's Unpopular Opinion Claims RoP's Galadriel is More Interesting Than LoTR's
Galadriel is one of the few characters who exist in both Tolkien's popular The Lord of the Rings and Amazon's original prequel series The Rings of Power.
October 31, 2022 7:00 am
Rings of Power Finally Explains Why Nobody Likes the Elves in Middle-earth
Throughout the various films and novels of the Tolkienverse, there are many obvious signs of tensions between the inhabiting races of Middle-earth; possibly no more so than between the elves and pretty much everyone else.