In Middle-earth, group affiliation is key to understanding many characters. We immediately know a Harfoot from a dwarf from an elf. And these labels reflexively offer information about what we might ...

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Author J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a whole lot more about Middle-earth than his famed The Lord of the Rings novels. Middle-earth is a place full of magic and monsters, including many races of humanoid ...

On The Rings of Power season one, the orcs, following their mysterious leader Adar, searched for a powerful weapon. We were curious about the weapon, itself, but also wondered, just who is The Rings ...