The opening of The Fellowship of the Ring finds an elven war-leader ordering his archers to fire, with arrows aimed so precisely they clip his exquisitely braided hair on their way past. We don’t see ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

This disparity inspired criticism from a couple of angles. Some LOTR fans characterized it as an unwanted departure from Tolkien canon. Others saw it as a troublesome statement about gender roles in ...

When we get right down to it, the live-action Lord of the Rings movies were primarily about hobbits and humans. The Hobbit films were about hobbits and dwarves. And so, it’s high time we get to see ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Spoilers, but The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Episode 1 ends by showing us elves on a voyage into the west, to the undying lands of Valinor. The trip is ...