Before filming began on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he and his team had two years of pre-production during which they adapted J. R. R. Tolkien's novel into scripts and storyboards.

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Three named characters are included for the bad guys: Gothmog, Sauron, and the Mouth of Sauron, from Return of the King’s deleted scenes. The all-new Sauron minifigure is fantastic, especially his ...

Underlying much of Tolkien’s writings, especially in his The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a deeply embedded theme of technology versus nature. In Tolkien’s eye, the oily, smoking march of technology, ...

“I knew I had a finite journey to go on,” admits Charles Edwards of his doomed character in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But the actor was excited to play out the final arc of ...