In 1977, four years after author J.R.R. Tolkien’s death, his son Christopher completed and published his father’s most ambitious and sprawling book: The Silmarillion. Part Lord of the Rings backstory, ...

These days, the biggest fad in pop culture is trying to build a complex mythology around any and every franchise you can find. Inter-movie continuity has grown beyond Marvel superheroes to everything ...

Reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings or watching Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies may create the impression that all the Elves in LotR were good, but that isn't the ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Christian Holub is a writer covering comics and other geeky pop culture. He's still mad about 'Firefly' getting canceled. These days, the biggest fad in pop culture is trying to build a complex ...

Explore the best of fantasy and sci-fi in depth, with analysis of the worlds of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, The ...

Middle-earth recently arrived on Prime Video. And Amazon’s expensive foray into the realm of orcs, wizards, and elves introduced viewers to the world’s Second Age. It’s a time that predates The Hobbit ...

In the last dread days of disco-dûr, in the midst of the Seventh Age — known in perhaps a more familiar tongue as “the Nineteen Seventsies” — there emerged from the House of Houghton Mifflin, and ...

Kendall Myers is a Senior Author with Collider. As part of the TV and Movies Features team, she writes about some of the most popular releases before, during, and after they premiere. In three years, ...