Fans of The Lord of the Rings are very familiar with the species of Orcs; horrible, brutish creatures who serve the Dark Lord Sauron in his conquest of Middle-Earth. Interestingly, in both Peter ...

Ugly, violent creatures, orcs hate almost everyone and everything. That includes themselves. This is why it’s so interesting that The Rings of Power‘s orcs do not hate Adar. They also abhor natural ...

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 ...

Peter Jackson's favorite part of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel was a terrifying sequence from The Fellowship ...

Warning: The following article contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2, Episode 3, “The Eagle and the Sceptre.” No, your eyes didn’t deceive you: that really was a ...

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[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the very end of The Rings of Power season 2 episode 4.] You might side with Elrond, who practically spits when he says she stepped up purely to make sure her ...

On The Rings of Power, the orcs follow Adar. And so, first understanding these creatures helps us to understand their leader. Orcs, called goblins in The Hobbit, have loomed large in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...