The first entry in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy was released in theaters more than 23 years ago, and all three films continue to be wildly popular amongst fans to this day. The ...

Spanning 1077 pages in its first, single-volume edition published in the 1960s, JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is a monumental tale. When Peter Jackson began adapting the fantasy epic for the ...

Read the full “Overlooked No More” obituary at The New York Times. GET A.V.CLUB RIGHT IN YOUR INBOX Pop culture obsessives ...

I once wrote a musical play with a character who spoke almost exclusively in words beginning with “a.” The practice was, in her own words, “awesome” and “awfully annoying.” Her appellation was Alpha.

Since The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) film trilogy finished in 2003, film studios have been trying to revive the historic Tolkien series, with several attempts aimed at longtime fans. In 2012, Peter ...

The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the ...

Sydney is in for a great big year of musical theatre, and it’s already off to an epic start with the Australian debut of The ...

In the Norse mythology that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien, the line between Elves and Dwarves was not as clear as it was in The ...

The world-first exhibition brings together artefacts from the British Library and portraits from the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Stays faithful to its source material while adding elements that more often enhance, rather than detract, from the core ...

This week, it's head of IP development at Leverage, former Deck 13 narrative director, and former head of artistic research ...

Robin Williams was responsible for bringing some of the all-time great characters to the screen. In terms of original creations, he portrayed John Keating in Dead Poets Society and Armand Goldman in ...