I Can't Believe J.R.R. Tolkien Almost Retconned One of His Most Iconic Characters
J.R.R. Tolkien is easily one of the greatest writers in history, perhaps the greatest fantasy writer of all time. The history ...
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Why JRR Tolkien Made March 25 the Day the Ring Was Destroyed
From the Shire to Mount Doom, Frodo’s path was mapped with the Church calendar in mind — a quiet testament to Tolkien’s Catholic imagination.
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J.R.R. Tolkien Based One of the Most Terrifying Parts of Lord of the Rings on His Own War Experiences
There is no shortage of chillingly creepy locations in The Lord of the Rings, but it's hard to beat the Dead Marshes. It's the vast, eerie swamp that Frodo (Elijah Wood), Sam (Sean Astin), and ...
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Tolkien Triangle will honour Hobbit author's legacy
JRR Tolkien spent almost 18 years in Hull and East Yorkshire recovering from trench fever after World War One. The landscape of the area is said to have been the influence of some of his stories ...
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How 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' adapts two pages of Tolkien lore into a whole movie
It's not adapting a novel of J.R.R. Tolkien's, but rather two pages from his Appendices, which lay out the last great stand of one of Rohan's most famed kings, Helm Hammerhand (voiced by ...