The Black Speech On The One Ring While Tolkien generally calls the language Rohan, after the people who spoke it, scholars of his work now generally prefer the term Rohirric. The language was ...

Elvish is the heart of Tolkien’s mythology, and it’s all over the latest adaptation of his work, Prime Video’s The Rings of Power. Quenya, which Tolkien describes as a sort of “Elf Latin ...

It simply means “orc” in the Black Speech of Mordor ... The short answer is: Tolkien never really decided on an answer to this, because he couldn’t find a way to fix the inherent problem ...

Facebook has 'banned' a Birmingham Tolkien fan for using "hate speech" after joking that people from the Black Country were "orcs and trolls". Claire Harris, 41, made the quip during an online ...

In order to have descendants, Bilbo was going to have to have Relations, and being a fairly devout early 20 th-century Roman Catholic, for Tolkien, that meant marriage. And so Bilbo’s speech on ...

As a teen, authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien opened up worlds for me that were both fantastic and faith-filled. I wouldn’t come to understand the deeper Catholic motifs in The Lord of the ...

“That’s a very vague understanding of Tolkien as a writer and thinker.” ROME — In a major speech to bolster support for Ukraine among political conservatives, Italian Prime Minister ...

“Professor Tolkien said in his letters that sometimes the most compelling story is the untold story.” That’s what Philippa Boyens told me when I interviewed her recently about the new ...

While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films and TV shows are closer than you might imagine. The first book in J R R ...