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Rings of Power, S1 E1
Liveblog for initial watch-through of Rings of Power S1 E1 I’ve put my initial thoughts as I was watching in the main bullets, and then pulled out any additional info I added…
Category: nerd
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Rings of Pow-Pow-Power, here I come!
Screenshot of show cover image from Amazon Prime So I’ve been putting off watching Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Not for any specific reason, mind you.
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Do you know which towers are “The Two Towers”?
No doubt you recognize the two towers in the DVD cover of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers:
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Glorfindel: Great Elf or GREATEST Elf?
Glorfindel. Elf of elves, forgotten by Peter Jackson, but always in our hearts. Was he a great elf or the GREATEST elf? Hear me out.
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The Seen and the Unseen
So in Tolkien’s mythology, there is the physical, visible world, referred to as the “Seen”, and the world of those things and beings that belong to magic, which is called the “Unseen”.…
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How to Become a Wraith with this One Weird Trick
We’re familiar with wraiths from The Lord of the Rings book and the movies, but how does one go about actually making a wraith?
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The Tolkien Creation Myth
One of the most confusing things in The Silmarillion is the sheer number of names and terms to know. So let’s dive into the creation myth in Tolkien’s world and learn a…
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MF-ing Azog, or Another Reason I Hate the Hobbit Movies
Let’s chat about Azog, the Orc-Lord also known as the Pale Orc or Azog the Defiler.