Before The Lord of the Rings, before the Third and even the Second Age, before Sauron and the Rings of Power, there was already darkness in Middle-earth. This darkness took on many names over time.

We dive into Tolkien's Legendarium to rescue the figure of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, Sauron's mentor who will appear in The Rings of Power. Before the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Before the Third ...

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” has arrived, but with the first two episodes dropping, those not deeply versed in the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien likely have plenty of questions. Indeed, “The ...

Despite being The Lord of the Rings' main villain, Sauron was really a follower of the far mightier Morgoth. The First Age saw Sauron serving as Morgoth's faithful second-in-command, overseeing the ...

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power begins with an info dump. Elves! Trees! War! Destruction, death, and finally — a great peace. But is it enough exposition? Due to the unusually ...

Orcs on The Rings of Power have a new home in the Southlands. But it was a man, acting on the orders of an elf, who opened the door to one of the most notorious locales in all of Middle-earth: Mount ...

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 ...

Mark Hospodar has been an avid gamer ever since he fired up the original Medal of Honor on his PS1. A history teacher by training, Mark has branched out into the fields of fiction and non-fiction ...

Chase is both a guides writer for DualShockers, and that one friend who won't stop talking about Dark Souls! His guides focus mainly on games that are either ridiculously competitive, or insanely ...