Parker Bennett is a graduate of Emerson College with more than 3 years of writing experience. He's been a fan and scholar of Tolkien's extended works for nearly his whole life, and is excited to be ...

Mordor's influence creeps into The War of the Rohirrim during the film's prolonged siege sequence, when the people of Rohan are trapped in the fortress of Hornburg. Helm's daughter Héra (voiced by ...

Ugly, violent creatures, orcs hate almost everyone and everything. That includes themselves. This is why it’s so interesting that The Rings of Power‘s orcs do not hate Adar. They also abhor natural ...

Alice is a Lord of the Rings enthusiast who grew up with Tolkien's tales. She loves all kinds of writing, from articles to stories to her debut novel, which she is seeking literary representation for.

Tamera is a Movies and TV Interview Editor for Collider. She mostly works behind the scenes for the site, and still can't believe she gets to write and edit for all the things she loves. In her free ...

Of the many monsters that appeared in J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s film adaptations, one of the mightiest and most terrifying was the Balrog that lurked deep beneath the Mines of ...

In the first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, our glimpses of orcs are fairly limited. But even so, they’re like nothing like what we’ve seen of them on screen before. Though ...

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the very end of The Rings of Power season 2 episode 4.] You might side with Elrond, who practically spits when he says she stepped up purely to make sure her ...

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On The Rings of Power, the orcs follow Adar. And so, first understanding these creatures helps us to understand their leader. Orcs, called goblins in The Hobbit, have loomed large in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...