Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. Despite having studied History and International Relations at university, he found his calling in cultural journalism. When he is not writing, Julio teaches ...

Aren’t the orcs just purely evil beings who could have no love in their hearts? Well, we suppose that’s a fair question to ask. But The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has long been veering away ...

J.R.R. Tolkien did not invent orcs; version of them date back to at least the 10th century. But the author’s magnum opus The Lord of the Rings helped make them popular in modern times, leading to ...

One of the biggest debates that soaked up social media during Season 2 of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" was the presence of an Orc family in Episode 3, "The Eagle and the Sceptre." In ...

New York — Illustrations, maps and other items related to the books “The Hobbit,” “The Silmarillion” and “The Lord of the Rings” will be on display here until mid-May, part of an event billed as the ...

The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power will be a fresh canvas for the series, offering fans a glimpse of Tolkien's mythical Second Age for the first time. In so doing, Amazon is taking the time to ...

Rise to War in Real Life, a cinematic project inspired by Middle-earth. From massive battle scenes and detailed costumes to ...

Students taking a Nottingham University course entitled “Decolonising Tolkien et al”, we learnt this week, are being taught that The Lord of the Rings “demonises people of colour”. I find this notion ...

Playing in Dungeons and Dragons either as or fighting against orcs may promote racist attitudes in real life The origin of the orc in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is based in anti-Asian (or ...