The Lord of the Rings was quite faithfully adapted, and it even included Tolkien's first major LotR villain, just not as expected. The children's book The Hobbit was released in 1937, while LotR was ...

Tolkien's writings often pit heroic underdogs against overpowered evil. They show the unseen, undervalued, and ill-equipped, like Frodo or Bilbo, facing off against impossibly fierce enemies like ...

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Warning: The following article contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2, Episode 7. Yet you can’t keep a good villain down, and Morgoth subsequently entered Arda (of ...

Before we get into Sauron, it’s best to start with his predecessor and the first Dark Lord of Middle-earth: Morgoth. First known as Melkor, he was a Valar—or one of the most powerful beings in Arda.

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From the Army of the Dead to the Last Alliance, these are the most powerful military forces in the whole of Middle-Earth ...

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The Silmarillion contains the legends of the First Age, spanning from the creation of the universe by Eru Illuvatar to the war that ended that age. The stories contained therein introduce the first ...