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DARK SECRETS: 6 - The Real Truth

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review — Time’s too precious for this sneaky action game

There’s potential in this twisted Tolkien side-tale, but not much in the way of fun

Evening Standard

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review: "Not so much an unexpected journey as it is one to avoid altogether"

Deep in the blackened bowels of Barad-Dur, a great evil is brewing. Sauron's army grows with every passing day, as the Dark Lord's piercing eye surveys the lunar wastelands of Mordor for his prized possession – the Ring of Power: one ring to rule them all. It's far from his…

GamesRadar

I can't believe who inspired Gollum's design in the new LOTR game

Daedelic art lead Mathias Fischer interview: what it took to bring Middle-earth to life on PS5 and the weird Sesame Street connection you never new existed.

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Are we right to be nervous about the new Lord of the Rings movies?

Elijah Wood has expressed his ‘surprise’ over plans for new movies of Tolkien’s fantasy classic – but they couldn’t be any worse than the book-butchering Hobbit trilogy

The Guardian - UK

Gollum dev says it's charging for the precious Elvish-language DLC because it had to train voice actors in how to speak it

We wants the Sindarin.

PC Gamer

The Rings of Power's Morfydd Clark on a big change for season 2

The British actor took time to answer questions about her central role on Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

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The new Lord of the Rings game gives one Return of the King character a wild new look

Behold the Tooth Snood

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The Lord of The Rings: Gollum teases a precious story, but I want to see more from its gameplay

The stealth-led adventure game appears improved, but there's work to do

GamesRadar

Will 'The Last of Us’ Be the Last of HBO’s Great Run? (Bloom)

Warner Bros. Discovery keeps hacking at its farm system, but can it keep finding enough big-league creative talent to take the big swings executives say they plan to keep taking?

Broadcasting & Cable

Italian princess, conspiracy theorists and Steven Seagal: meet Russia’s friends overseas

‘I am 100% Russophile’ declares US actor at meeting of International Movement of Russophiles in Moscow

The Guardian - UK

Why Old Norse myths endure in popular culture

From Wagner to William Morris in the late 19th century, via Tolkien’s dwarves and CS Lewis’s The Last Battle, through to last year’s controversial film The Northman, Scandinavian gods and heroes have been central to the stories we tell ourselves.

The Conversation

Couple have Lord of the Rings wedding after wife's devastating rare diagnosis

Tolkien enthusiasts Becky and Jack Unwin, who watch or read Lord of the Rings every week, thought life was too short for an ordinary wedding

Daily Mirror

Woman diagnosed with rare condition that causes organs to harden

Becky Unwin, 34, was devastated to be diagnosed with systemic sclerosis after a routine blood test

The Independent UK

The oral history of Helm’s Deep, the greatest battle scene ever put to film

Two decades after 'The Two Towers’ release on December 18, 2002, Inverse caught up with the team that helped bring Peter Jackson's most ambitious set-piece to life.

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55 years later, Star Trek rethinks a famously aggressive alien race

What do we really know about Tellarites? 'Star Trek: Prodigy' star Jason Mantzoukas explains, creating an interesting link to 'Lord of the Rings.'

The Independent UK

Lord of the Strings: Violin used in Tolkien movie trilogy to be auctioned

Dermot Crehan played the Hardanger violin in the Lord of the Rings films.

Wales Online

Origins of The Wheel of Time reveals secrets ahead of Amazon’s second season

From King Arthur to Queen Elizabeth, British legends and figures inspire epic fantasy series

The Guardian - UK

More money, more viewers, more glamour: how TV overtook film as a creative force

From the deeper, richer characters of TV writing to its trouncing of dwindling box-office receipts, the small screen is overturning a decades-old myth: that cinema is the superior genre

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'Rings of Power' star says she's "honored" to be 'shipped with Sauron: "I get it"

With the Season 1 finale in the rearview, star Morfydd Clark unpacks Galadriel's plunge into the Sundering Seas.

Inverse

'Rings of Power' writer defends the show's biggest change to Tolkien canon

The greatest evil in Middle-earth is finally unmasked in 'The Rings of Power.' Writer Gennifer Hutchison hints at what he might do in Season 2.

TechRadar

The Rings of Power season 2: Prime Video release date, trailer, confirmed cast, plot synopsis, and more

Here's everything you need to know about The Rings of Power season 2 before you watch it on Prime Video.

The Guardian - UK

Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker

The world’s most expensive show – which looked like an episode of Hollyoaks, only with woeful acting – was so inept that every episode left you sniggering

Inverse

'Rings of Power' spoiled Halbrand’s real identity with one sneaky clue

In 'The Silmarillion,' Halbrand had another title that, when alluded to in 'The Rings of Power,' gave away his true identity.

Total Film

Who is the Stranger in The Rings of Power?

Don't be a stranger, Stranger

Daily Mirror

Rings of Power: Parts of Season One 'didn't work', admit show creators

The Rings of Power is Prime Video's biggest piece of original content yet and has reached tens of millions around the world, but showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne have said that the season has some faults.

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