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Tag J. R. R. Tolkein

The Rings of Power is Not Your Father’s Lord of the Rings

Amazon Studios’ newest TV series, The Rings of Power, has been getting much attention. Like anything in the Internet Age, you either have to 100 percent hate or 100 percent love the show, as the Lords of Tweets and Outrage… Continue Reading →

Middle-Earth’s Origins are Revealed in Tolkien

Per Matt Bringing a writer’s life to the big screen and making it interesting has been a hit-or-miss proposition for Hollywood throughout the years. What can often be described as an isolated event, taking pen to paper (or more accurately… Continue Reading →

Netflix’s Bright Combines Bad Boys and The Lord of the Rings

Bright is a new cop drama film from Netflix. But unlike any of the other cop dramas that saturate the streaming media service, this one brings in the “what if” mentality. What if the world as we know it was… Continue Reading →

Guillermo del Toro: Made of Fairy Tales and Fantasies

Per Matt No stranger to sci-fi monsters (Pacific Rim), dark fantasy (Pan’s Labyrinth), horror (The Orphanage), supernatural superheroes (Hellboy, Blade II), high-fantasy adventures (the Hobbit trilogy) and the vampire Apocalypse (The Strain), Guillermo del Toro is a master filmmaker of… Continue Reading →

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

While Bilbo Baggins may have undertaken An Unexpected Journey, he has yet to face anything quite like The Desolation of Smaug.

LEGO Lord of the Rings

  What happens when you combine a family-friendly video game with the most profitable film franchise of Middle-Earth?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I’d like to be perfectly clear, for a moment. I’m not a big reader. I have my favorite authors, whose books I read on occasion, but ordinarily, I don’t read a ton of books. Then, in 2009, Pride and Prejudice… Continue Reading →

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