The Internet has been buzzing about a recent interview with comedian Stephen Colbert and CNN’s Anderson Cooper. In it, Cooper asks Colbert, “You went on to say, ‘What punishments of […]
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I had the opportunity to interview award winning actor John Rhys-Davies (Gimli in The Lord of the Rings)Â about a recent audio drama he participated in called, The Trials of Saint
“[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated
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When one is asked to think of comic book characters, the name Abraham Van Helsing probably does not immediately spring to mind. However, Van Helsing is a comic book character.
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Great mystery has surrounded the upcoming Lord of the Rings series being produced for Amazon Prime. Very few details have been revealed until today, when a whole “fellowship” of creators were
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“Therefore [Iluvatar] willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, 36). This short passage from J.R.R. Tolkien’s
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Roughly a year after Amazon announced its plan to create a series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Netflix revealed plans to create a series and feature films based
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Images from the most recent trailers for Godzilla: King of the Monsters seem to suggest that director Michael Dougherty has more on his mind than giant monsters. A key image
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Unlike his friend, contemporary and fellow Inkling C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien did not approve of nor employ direct allegory. That means that, for example, none of his Christ figures are perfect
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Unlike his friend, contemporary and fellow Inkling C.S. Lewis, Tolkien did not approve of nor employ direct allegory. In the Chronicles of Narnia, (contrary to what Liam Neeson would want you to
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