Most fans agree that the Battle of Helm's Deep is the coolest action sequence in The Lord of the Rings... but these battles ...

Named after a goblin prince from J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit," Bolg amondol was identified from tiny pieces of skull, limbs, ...

The Hobbit trilogy depicted several important moments from The Lord of the Rings universe. From the Dwarves’ quest to the Misty Mountains, the defeat of the dragon Smaug, the battle of the five armies ...

and build to a long-overdue icy smackdown with the giant orc Bolg. Martin Freeman, as the titular hobbit adds a touch of steel to his quiet everyman charm, while the old guard of Ian McKellen’s ...

From the Lord of the Rings' Gimli to The Hobbit's Thorin Oakenshield, these are the sturdiest and stoutest of the Dwarves in ...

In both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien writes of the orc Bolg and his father, Azog. Tolkien notes in The Hobbit, “Bolg of the North is coming, O Dain! whose father you slew in ...

However, there is plenty of evidence within Tolkien’s books that orcs do have families. In The Hobbit, Gollum describes catching and eating a “small goblin-imp. How it squeaked!” ...

The Hobbit and the Rings trilogy must have been on many a rural commune’s shelves. The books haven’t changed, but everything about their reception has. How do you historicize all this? Q: Speaking of ...

Bilbo takes it, and the creature confronts him, but the hobbit escapes with the ring, which grants him the power to become invisible. We also learn an Orc war chief named Azog has placed a bounty ...

And in these years, he seems to have seen the contradiction of it being totally heroic to slaughter orcs at any opportunity, even though, in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, they appeared to ...