Like Satan, who was once an angel known as Lucifer, Sauron was originally an angelic being himself called Mairon. As one of the Maiar (the race of immortal spirits from which Gandalf also derives), he ...

The Stranger is actually one of the Istari, a race of wizards that appear in writer J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books. Tolkien writes about five wizards, two of whom feature heavily in the Lord ...

Sauron's goal is to rule "over flesh" and unite every race under his rule. Despite the acknowledgment that Sauron's manipulation so far has been brilliant, part of why it has been so great is that ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power season 2 episode 6. The latest episode of The Rings of Power ...

Rings Of Power isn’t playing coy about the focus of “Halls Of Stone.” The Dwarves are the canary in the coal mine for the ...

He also says that Sauron devises a language for some of the ... by nature short-lived compared with the span of Men of higher race, such as the Edain." While most Orcs die quickly, there are ...

And, of course, Sauron wastes no time in making Celebrimbor feel as though the elves are ungrateful for his contributions to saving their race, cleverly alienating him from Gil-galad, Galadriel ...

but an actual people with their own sense of agency—one that is being denied by Sauron’s villainy. Through the frame of Adar ...

Sauron does not appear to have the loyalty of ... recorded long-term relationships between an elf and someone from the race of men and each are hailed as a great and terrible thing, which become ...

And he insists they have no choice but to follow him, because no one else in Middle-earth can stand their race. Then, just as Adar appears ready to crown Sauron as the new dark lord, he flips the ...

The Rings of Power asks complicated questions, but its season two Ents scene offers one of the most complex: Do the orcs ...

Hinds is no stranger to fantasy adaptations: He has had roles in both Game of Thrones and Harry Potter. However, in The Rings ...