First photos from The Hunt for Gollum shows the Shire and possibly Frodo
Warner Bros. released the first set photos from The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. The reveal lines up with Hobbit Day, celebrated every year on September 22 in honor of Bilbo and...
Why the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Blu-ray turned green, and no one fixed it
Color grading is the most invisible and total magic in cinema – one shifted slider changes not just a shot, but the mood of an entire story. And if the mistake doesn't get caught before...
An old number from the Lord of the Rings DVD led a fan to a 2001 chess set
Sometimes the most interesting finds hide not in online stores, but in old things long written off. That is exactly what happened with this story about a Lord of the Rings chess set that resurfaced...
Enthusiast created a stunning bookshelf door for his wife styled like a hobbit home from The Lord of the Rings
Love for fictional worlds sometimes goes beyond posters on the wall or figurines on a shelf – it starts literally reshaping the house. A round door, green grass on the roof, a smoking pipe by...
Viggo Mortensen paid a hefty legal bill for stunt performers on the set of "The Lord of the Rings"
The gap between a screen hero and the person playing him is usually measured by the size of the PR budget. Sometimes, though, it works the other way around, and an actor turns out to...
Action games based on "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" are considered among the best Lord of the Rings games by fans
A good measure of how alive a game still is isn't its launch-day scores but how many people argue about its mechanics from memory two decades later. EA action games based on Peter Jackson trilogy...
Rapper Post Malone used the "One Ring" for the first time – the rarest and most expensive Magic: The Gathering card
Post Malone did what collectors everywhere feared – he put a card worth more than two million dollars into an actual game. The card in question is his one-of-a-kind copy of The One Ring from...
The only drawing of Sauron created by Tolkien was "brought to life" using AI
Based on the only surviving sketch of Sauron, drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, someone created a photorealistic reconstruction using AI. Tolkien drew the sketch in 1954 as an early concept of Sauron for The Return...
Canadian built a cozy home theater in the style of The Lord of the Rings
The dream of any Middle-earth fan doesn't stop at rewatching the Peter Jackson trilogy for the tenth time. Some go further and turn a regular room with a projector into a portal to Tolkien's universe....
An enthusiast made a surprisingly high-quality Ring of Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings for his future wife
Proposing with a ring inspired by Galadriel artifact – now that's an idea as beautiful as it is bold. Nenya, one of the three elven Rings of Power in Tolkien lore, was never meant to...
Google apologized for removing The Lord of the Rings from a user's library, but still asks to purchase it again
Google apologized to a customer after his purchased Lord of the Rings Extended Edition trilogy vanished from his library. He'd bought the bundle back in 2022, but support initially refused a refund, citing a rule...
How powerful is Galadriel – analysis of the might of the elf who conquered Dol Guldur
Trying to measure the "power" of Tolkien characters like some kind of anime power scale almost always ends in failure, because Middle-earth runs on completely different rules. Might here isn't about how much you can...
The internet recalled the only sketch of Sauron created by Tolkien himself
With news about season three of "The Rings of Power" making rounds, people online are pointing out that the only sketch of Sauron ever drawn by Tolkien himself looks a lot less demonic than most...
Fans bring drawings and other works to Tolkien's grave in Oxford – it has turned into a place of pilgrimage for fans
The resting place of the man who created Middle-earth looks surprisingly modest for someone whose influence on fantasy culture is hard to overstate. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his wife Edith are buried at Wolvercote...
