Elvish is the heart of Tolkien’s mythology, and it’s all over the latest adaptation of his work, Prime Video’s The Rings of Power. Quenya, which Tolkien describes as a sort of “Elf Latin ...

Tolkien expounded upon the powers of the rings in a letter gathered in a compendium. The Rings of Power offers us flashes of these powers. Around the time that the elves acquire the rings ...

These are some of the most important. Galadriel, the Elven Queen known as the "Lady of Light," appears throughout Tolkien's writing as a beacon of good, the very antithesis of Sauron. She has been ...

Great question. In Tolkien’s novels, the elven smith Celebrimbor creates the first three rings simply because he can—which is kind of badass, no? It’s suggested that Sauron had a hand in ...

“They marched east into Middle-earth gathering a great host of Elves and Men; and they halted for a while at Imladris.” When Tolkien says “a while,” he means it, too. A timeline in the ...

Famously, Tolkien's verse-written prologue listed the number of rings bestowed upon each race and gave a brief description of each. Men are three, Dwarves are seven, and Elves are nine.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary works set within the realm of Middle Earth were heavily inspired by Norse mythology. His elves and ...

Those who don’t follow Tolkien lore might not know much about the other rings–three for the elves, seven for the dwarves, and nine for men–at least until now. The Rings of Power’s season 1 ...

If there was ever a character to attempt to describe as a “Mary Sue,” with unearned talent, it is not the thousands-year old elf that Tolkien repeatedly says is among the most powerful and ...

“Doomed to Die,” depicted the much-anticipated Siege of Eregion — a deadly battle from J.R.R. Tolkien’s original writings that marks the beginning of the War of the Elves and Sauro ...

The Rings of Power has come to an end and the season finale was packed full of big and exciting events. One of the more ...