Chinese fans of the fantastic world of Middle-earth, created by English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, recently had their enthusiasm re-ignited by the release of the new animated film The Lord of the ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...

Polygon sat down with Boyens to discuss adapting the world of Middle-earth to another medium and what she learned about screenwriting, moviemaking, and J.R.R. Tolkien himself on The War of the ...

“Professor Tolkien said in his letters that sometimes the most compelling story is the untold story.” That’s what Philippa Boyens told me when I interviewed her recently about the new ...

They have the imposing sweep of highly textured video-game art, with a strong flavour of northern European/Asian cross-pollination — a touch of Celtic Kurosawa.

And just in time for the long winter nights, a new Tolkien animated Lord of the Rings film is on the horizon. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim hits theaters this weekend, from ...

The mythology of the story itself is extracted from the appendices of Tolkien's original tomes ... Kamiyama merges a more contemporary three-dimensional art style with traditional two-dimensional ...

R. R. Tolkien: how few women populate his saga's dramatis personae compared to men. By no means did Tolkien preclude women from being heroic, powerful, wise, or adventurous, nor did he disrespect ...

Located in southern India near the Unesco World Heritage Site of Hampi, the structure is a sleight of hand by leading Indian architect Sameep Padora (behind numerous Indian houses, such as Lattice ...