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LOS ANGELES – In "The Fellowship of the Ring," Christopher Lee (search) appeared as the traitorous elder wizard Saruman (search), whose snowy white beard and robe hid his black-hearted intentions for ...

The 'Lord of the Rings' films are phenomenal, but there are some moments from the books they missed out on. Here's a big one.

Alice is a Lord of the Rings enthusiast who grew up with Tolkien's tales. She loves all kinds of writing, from articles to stories to her debut novel, which she is seeking literary representation for.

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

Why Could the Stranger Be Saruman? Ultimately, we don’t know who the Stranger is, aside from being an Istar, or a wizard. Five wizards came to Middle-earth, so the Stranger could be any of them. When ...

Like much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s lore, the history of Istari during the Second Age is a muddled mess of conflicting tales, timelines, and monikers. In some accounts he wrote the Valar sent Istari to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “When we reached out to Gitte, Lady Lee, who’s sadly no longer with us… she said the thing that I ...

"Learned and powerful, Saruman devoted himself to studying the ways of his enemy, that he might therein devise a means of defeating him. To this end, he amassed within his tower a vast library of ...

History happens, it is transmitted from generation to generation, sometimes it is idealized, and at other times it becomes legend. As a story, Éowyn narrates the events of an ancient war waged by her ...