which led to her conversion to Catholicism. Growing up evangelical, Nielsen said she encountered enchantment and heroism in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and the Inklings, of which C.S. Lewis was ...

I’m a big Lord of the Rings guy,” JD Vance once told a podcaster. The running mate of former and perhaps future president ...

Tolkien then complained: "Meanwhile the 'Daily Worker' is cried in the streets unmolested." The "Daily Worker" was the ...

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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 ...

THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...

What if I told you that the question of whether balrogs have wings at all has been vexing Tolkien scholars for decades? The source of the problem is that all of the language that Tolkien used to ...

She is also the author of “On Spice.” In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Sauron is pure evil. He is the acolyte of Morgoth, a Satan figure in Tolkien’s mythos. Morgoth creates sun ...

The second season of “Rings of Power” is far from perfect. But the finale pays off its themes in surprisingly satisfying ways ...

I've analyzed every episode of season 2 and compared it to Tolkien's collected works. Russell Holly is a Managing Editor on the Commerce team at CNET. He works with all of CNET to assemble top ...