Tolkien's The Hobbit was a much smaller-scale story than its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, but there are still aspects of it that are curious, including the Five Armies. Part of The Hobbit's smaller ...

Fly me to Orc-land! Here's a sneak peek at the latest Air New Zealand in-flight safety video which features some more Middle-earth magic. Besides an evil Orc, it will also feature a cameo ...

PHOTOS: 60 images from Middle-earth and ‘The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug’ The evil Orcs with their weird eyes and scarred bodies are always fearful, but they return in greater force and with ...

“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” is the best of the three “Hobbit” installments, in that it’s not horrible. Yet even it suffers from the same disease as the first two entries.

In The Hobbit, the Orcs were known as goblins. ... not larger.Tolkien always stood by his story that nothing in Middle-earth was inherently evil. This includes the Orcs and goblins, ...

And we feel like that’s a much more fascinating story to explore than if they were just purely evil. If the orc baby and orc family on The Rings of Power is really such a bothersome concept to ...

Amazon's The Rings of Power depicts an orc family. Amazon Prime Video. Season 2 of Amazon’s The Rings of Power sparked controversy and online debate after the series depicted a sympathetic orc ...

Even though the evil orc leader Azog was dead in the book, "Hobbit" filmmakers decided to bring him back for the movie trilogy. You wouldn't necessarily recognize him with all the special effects ...

Peter Jackson’s much anticipated The Hobbit hits theaters today. Resident Tolkien-ite Anna Klassen compares the film to the original novel, revealing 19 differences between the Tolkien classic ...

The events depicted in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey are set 60 years before what happens in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but just because it’s an origin story doesn ...