Out of all the iconic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's books, Elves, otherwise known as the Firstborn, are the most dynamic and ...

So yeah, these are the 10 best fantasy books about elves, but if you see Gimli, will you tell him that he’s better than them?

For nearly five years, entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has been attempting that feat of which magicians and daredevils have ...

However, in Tolkien's original material, this battle has a different significance, one that Jackson and company changed when they added one particular element: Elves. In Jackson’s film ...

J.R.R. Tolkien is easily one of the greatest writers ... rebellion against the Valar as the Noldor elves wished to go to Middle-earth to fight Morgoth. This included the first Kinslaying, where ...

Tolkien describes multiple origins for Orcs, one of which suggests they were Elves corrupted by Morgoth. This creates an unanswered theological question: If Orcs were originally Elves, do they ...

In "The Lost Road," Tolkien followed father-son pairs whose names all had the same meaning — "Elf-friend" and "Bliss-friend." The last pairing was that of Elendil (played by Lloyd Owen in The ...

Created in the 1920s, that map is the first one of Middle-earth, a fantasy world of elves and wizards, dwarves and dragons. There would be many more maps. By the end of the 1940s, academic and author ...