An overlooked aspect of The Lord of the Rings' lore is yet another reason that the Great Eagles could not have flown the Ring-bearer to Mount Doom.

Gandalf has some of the best lines in the entire The Lord of the Rings ... it was just a question of guiding his allies there and hoping that Frodo was strong enough to bear the One Ring to Mordor.

Now, even if Gandalf could somehow convince the Eagles to carry Frodo to Mordor, it is likely that this plan would have failed. Polygon points out that the mission of the Fellowship depends on ...

Because Gandalf refers to Mordor as the “Evil Empire” and is accused of crafting a “Final Solution to the Mordorian problem” by rival wizard Saruman, he obviously serves as an avatar for ...

There’s a prevailing fan theory out there that in The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf had a secret plan to get the Fellowship of the Ring into Mordor by using the eagles to fly there. The best ...

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor takes a very big gamble bending the rules of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world in the same brutal and direct way protagonist Talion conquers his enemies’ minds. And that ...

With "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," the filmmakers had a distinct challenge. As the middle section of a trilogy, the movie could neither end nor begin. Moreover, director Peter Jackson ...

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is due out tomorrow, pitting the ranger Talion and his wraith BFF against the hordes of orcs that are causing all sorts of problems throughout Middle-earth. It’s a ...

And while closely following the path laid down in Tolkien’s pages may seem like the best course, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor showed that sometimes the best way to respect the source material ...