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We have released Age of the Ring Version 7.2, featuring many bug fixes and balance changes!

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring turns 20 this month, and as our thoughts linger there and back again, we’re reminded of just how many

Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies had to cut and change some parts of the Tolkien books. Among them, transforming Tolkien’s Dark Lord Sauron into a giant flaming eye on top of a dark tower. Let’s explain the real Sauron.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s works have inspired and brought together legions of fans, and since the late 1960s, one of the most prominent groups has been The Tolkien Society, an organization devoted to promoting his life and works, functioning both as a fan club and academic organization. For years, its members have organized and released an annual academic journal, the Mallorn, a peer-reviewed periodical that gathers up the latest scholarship on Tolkien and his work. Now, the organization has opened up access (h/t to TolkienExperience on Reddit) to its archives for the general public, and you can re...

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. Orcs, amirite? The shock troops of the Dark Lord’s armies. The rank-and-file of the bad guys in Middle-earth. Called a “hideous race” bred in “envy and mockery of the Elves.” Everyone’s got feelings about them. Feelings… and differing facts, maybe. It...