I am deeply excited about The Lord of the Rings: The War of the RohirrimBut wondering if it will give enough importance to one of the key characters of Tolkien’s story. The upcoming War of the Rohirrim The film will adapt a story from “Appendix A” of Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. The high-fantasy trailblazer JRR Tolkien spun many yarns in the novel’s appendices—Tolkien used them to create a rich mythology for Middle-earth, creating his distinctive mythopoeic writing style. There is one significant Rohirrim king from Tolkien’s mythology that I can’t identify in the trailer. “The House of…
Author: Cristina Trujillo
Barbie director Greta Gerwig will direct the next Chronicles of Narnia remake, and Henry Cavill proved his willingness to participate in it. Netflix will distribute Gerwig’s Narnia remake after the 2000s film series was discontinued after The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Walt Disney and Walden Media joined forces to make the first two films, but Disney later backed out Prince Caspian box office disappointment, leaving the third film even smaller and the remaining books unadapted. So Gerwig’s reboot gives CS Lewis’s books a new lease on life, with a 2007 Cavill project providing a perfect…
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was the best on screen D&D moment in decades, but Dungeons and Dragons fans who enjoyed it might remember an underrated TV show from 1983. With a Honor among thieves sequence with ice, it’s a great time to Dungeons and Dragons players, spectators and readers can look further afield for the variety of excellent D&D available content. Honor among thieves is far from the only one D&D film; Courtney Solomon Directed 2000s Dungeons and Dragonsand had two side dishes. THE D&D Films released in the 2000s received some negative reviews that criticized their originality,…
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is set to fire The Lord of the Rings Franchise again in 2024 with a controversial protagonist choice, but I think I understand the direction in which the movie is going. The movie will be the first Warner Bros. Lord of the Rings Movie since Peter Jackson’s estimated The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was released in 2003 (not counting the related Hobbit films). Directed by Kenji Kamiyama instead of Peter Jackson and using anime instead of live-action, the movie’s protagonist is perhaps the least surprising…
It can be difficult to tell the age of many of the letters in The Lord of the RingsAnd The dwarves in particular present a challenge. in the lord of the rings Gandalf said he walked the earth for “300 lives of people,” So evidently, wizards have a superhuman life. Gandalf was one of the magical Istari, who are, in fact, immortal. High fantasy luminary JR Tolkien also affirmed that elves are immortal. There are hints throughout Tolkien’s work that dwarves Have inhumanly long lives, but it may take some digging to confirm exactly how long. Peter Jackson The Lord…
HBO has a Harry Potter The TV show coming out in 2026 and the announcement of Albus Dumbledore’s ideal casting is very encouraging. The upcoming TV show constitutes a reboot on Harry Potter franchise, following the huge success Harry Potter films. Starting the film series in 2001, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone it featured Richard Harris as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Harris is just the first of a handful of actors to play Dumbledore, all of whom the HBO show may have a hard time beating. But the casting news is promising. Harris played Dumbledore in Harry Potter and…
The intriguing origin story of the Dwarves in The Lord of the Rings links with the very origins of good and evil in this scenario. Ainur, Elves, Men and Hobbits arose from the One Eru Ilúvatar, God of Middle-earth. While The Silmarillion states that Eru created Elves and Men, Hobbits are believed to be related to Men. However, the Ents were created by Valier Yavanna and the Dwarves were created by her husband, Aulë. The orcs, in turn, were created by Morgoth, the first villain of Middle-earth. However, any life form not created by Eru required Eru’s own Secret Fire…
The Lord of the Rings was full of fantasy peoples, from elves and hobbits to dwarves and ents, but there were many parts of the story devoted to the various civilizations of men. Men ruled in Gondor and Rohan in Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings Movies, but fantasy luminary JRR Tolkien also described their ancestors and the different realms they inhabited, as well as many more human tribes and realms. Peter Jackson’s second Lord of the Rings trilogy, the habit, Explore the people of Dale, who formed their own group of people in Tolkien’s world. Among the many types…
JRR Tolkien’s little-known gem from 1962 may seem like a children’s book, but it’s anything but. High fantasy pioneer JRR Tolkien is known for writing 1937 The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ringspublished in three parts between 1954 and 1955. Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies adapted these novels, bringing Tolkien’s work to a much wider audience. But there are two more Lord of the Rings books that Tolkien actually published during his lifetime. One is a songbook and the other is the 1962 poetry collection, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Being a poetry…
There are at least 10 drow who deserve a place in a Legend of Drizzt TV program. Invented by Gary Gygax for Dungeons and DragonsThe drow are a race of elves with ebony skin and white hair. They have existed since 1977, however, they did not become widely known until RA Salvatore published The crystal shard in 1988. This was the first published book in a series that would become known as The Legend of Drizztand was the world’s introduction to Salvatore’s character, the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden. He is probably the most famous fictional drow in existence. Drizzt was…