J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary works set within the realm of Middle Earth were heavily inspired by Norse mythology. His elves and dwarves are plucked directly from the Norse cosmos, and Gandalf is ...

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV show, which purports to adapt events of the Second Age in J. R. R. Tolkien’s elaborate mythology (The Lord of the Rings depicts the Third Age and some of the ...