Page 5 - Pelennor Fields News Today

The Lord of the Rings movies were once declared the ‘best unpaid advert’ for the small country at the end of the world – that's still true

When you sojourned through your last RPG session, did mountains help or hamper you? What about a freak snowstorm? Were a river’s rapids gentle and shallow or Class 5 widow-makers?

The Nazgûl (which in the Black Speech means Ringwraiths|Ringwraith) are fictional characters created by J.R.R. Tolkien which appear in The Lord of the...

From the Anglo-Saxon influences on the kingdom of Rohan, to the origins of Helm Hammerhand here is the War of the Rohirrim explained.

In this scattershot series, we’ll be delving “too greedily and too deep,” prying gems out of the glorious rough that is the extended legendarium of Tolkien’s world. This includes drawing on The Lord of the Rings itself, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, and the History of Middle-earth (or HoMe) books. Previously, on Tolkien’s Orcs… I concluded in part 1, which covered the monstrous hoi polloi of Middle-earth as presented in The Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rin...

This story is part of a group of stories called 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. In honor of the enduring classics, were exploring every aspect of Peter Jacksons trilogy, from JRR Tolkiens source material to the best scenes and moments, along with the continued influence of Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King on modern pop culture. If you run a deliciously pedantic Lord of the Rings-themed Twitter account that tweets the...

Lord Of The Rings Lego Build Sets New World Record With 150 Million Pieces A team of 50 people worked for three years and used 150 million bricks to create this record-setting masterpiece. The Guiness Book of World Records has certified another achievement; this one for the largest Lego mini brick build ever, and the construction itself is a Lord of the Rings-themed diorama. The epic design that you can see in the video below was built by a team of 50 designers who used an astonishing 150 milli...

Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the worlds greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. We live in a polarized, deeply divided nation, something thats obvious in our politics but also in the way we all individually experience the world. The internet, and social media, in particular, have splintered us from any collective, making any sort ...