After the fall of Morgoth, Sauron did not disappear. Instead he rebuilt his strength carefully, using deception, patience, ...

The Rings of Power takes place in this time period – though the timeline for the show has been shortened considerably. The ...

Animated gems like Beauty and the Beast and classics like The Wizard of Oz are among the best fantasy movies released before ...

As a big Lord of the Rings fan, Prime Video's Rings of Power isn't the best of J. R. R. Tolkien's world, but it does feature ...

Sauron has taken several forms already in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, but season 3 should finally introduce the real villain.

When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a ...

In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – ...

D'Orc #2 hits stores Wednesday! Our half-orc hero faces his toughest challenge yet: kids! Plus time thieves and an annoying ...

Since starring in “The Lord of the Rings,” the actor has often lent his talents to under-the-radar indies and blood-soaked ...

There is no shortage of great tabletop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, including The One Ring role-playing game, a highly successful Magic: The Gathering set, and The Lord of ...

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago. During a period geologists call Snowball Earth, ice sheets crept from the ...