It came about during Galadriel and Sauron’s epic duel high atop the cliffs overlooking the sacked capital city of Eregion, Ost-in-Edhil. As Galadriel loses the duel, Sauron uses Morgoth’s crown to pin ...

There are a lot of great and powerful beings in The Lord of the Rings, but Sauron (the second Dark Lord) is often thought of as the most terrifying, destructive, and powerful being in Middle Earth. He ...

“All shall love me and despair.” The line from Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring is the apex of Cate Blanchett’s striking turn as the elven sorceress Galadriel. In an instant, all hell seems ...

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is as big a TV show as TV shows have ever been, with a record-setting budget spent on recreating J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth during the Second Age, and a ...

The Rings of Power depicts a world both strange and familiar. It’s Middle-earth, yes, but a Middle-earth before the events known as The Lord of the Rings. This is the Second Age, just before the dark ...

As Galadriel puts the pieces together about Halbrand’s Sauron-sized secret, he tries to tempt her one more time into joining him. This temptation takes the form of a vision, one where tehy can rule ...

As The Rings of Power moves through its second season on Prime Video, the show continues to expand on the lore of Middle-earth in its Second Age, with the threat of Sauron coming ever closer to ...

Reanna Gonzalez received her MFA in screenwriting and has been writing movie and television sceenplays for 5 years. She was mentored be Tony Award-winning playwright, Mark Medoff. She spends her free ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Rings of Power‘s season two finale was chock-full of major events and long-awaited reveals. From the tragic ending of Adar to the epic final moments of King Durin III to the final unveiling of the ...