Grafting twenty-first century notions of racial diversity onto J.R.R. Tolkien’s prehistoric mythology is as nonsensical as it is unnecessary. If you thought the…
The controversy around the ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel highlights the ways in which fantasy fiction is gatekept in the name of preserving…
The first episode of Amazon’s new billion-dollar Lord of the Rings TV series, The Rings of Power, features a scene where a furious snow troll clobbers a…
Elon Musk has reignited his longstanding rivalry with Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos, this time over Amazon’s buzzy new series “The Lord of the Rings:…
Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and Peter Jackson’s fantastic three-film adaptation had many reasons to doubt that Amazon’s prequel…
Now that it’s had a chance to breathe, we need to address the elephant in the screening room: the Lord of the Rings:…
Pedestrian storytelling meets twists that defy ‘Star Wars’ canon The Force is far from strong with the Disney+ series “The Acolyte.” Neither horrible…
Before you jump down my throat, I read the J.R.R Tolkien books, watched the Peter Jackson series and The Hobbit. I read the…
One of the more tiresome complaints I’ve heard online about Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power show is that it’s pushing a…
Brandon Morse has read J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” the “Lord of the Rings” series and watched extended editions of Peter Jackson’s ring trilogy so often that…