An upcoming card game based on The Lord of the Rings appears to race-swap a number of major characters, including Aragorn, a central hero of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy saga.
PETA is demanding that Hollywood stop using live animals after a horse died on the set of the Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series.
Bernard Hill, the actor who played King Théoden in Peter Jackson’s seminal The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has slammed Amazon’s controversial The Rings of Power series as a mere cash-grab, “not like the real thing”.
So, because some of us found the first two episodes of Amazon’s dull, lifeless, tedious, self-righteous, and silly Rings of Power series dull, lifeless, tedious, self-righteous, and silly, Amazon says we’re racist.
The cast of Amazon’s “Rings of Power” has publicly denounced what it called “relentless racism” that has allegedly been directed at its BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) actors since the series went live last week.
Rings of Power is set thousands of years before Lord of the Rings and revolves around characters I care nothing about.
Amazon has temporarily shut off user reviews for The Rings of Power on Prime Video, claiming to take this action so it can filter out “trolls” leaving negative comments about the new series.
Woke creatives are reimagining famed fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings through a modern racial lens as a new card game appears to depict King Aragorn as a black man, according to a report.
Two of the stars of the new Amazon Prime prequel of famed author J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” saga claim that “artistic license” will “reinvigorate” the show with its woke casting of racial minorities.
British filmmaker Andy Serkis revived one of his favorite party tricks — playing his character Gollum from The Lord of the Rings movies to parody world leaders — this time with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
The National Guard of Ukraine has shared video footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets with pig fat for Chechen “orcs” deployed in their country on their verified Twitter account.
The new teaser for the upcoming ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ was blasted on Youtube with a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien.
LONDON (AP) – Christopher Tolkien, who played a major role protecting the legacy of his father’s “The Lord of the Rings” series, has died. He was 95.
“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
“Lord of the Rings” actor Andy Serkis revived his Gollum character to mock British Prime Minister Theresa May as she fails to sell her Brexit withdrawal agreement to parliament and the British public.
Sci-Fi and fantasy writer Andy Duncan claimed in a podcast that J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books are racist, citing the negative perceptions associated with the evil Orcs.
Actor John Boyega decried what he called a lack of people of color in some of Hollywood’s major film and television franchises in an interview released this week.
Actor Viggo Mortensen, an early supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, has revealed he will not vote for the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton, in November and will instead cast his vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen has weighed in on the ongoing Academy Awards diversity controversy, saying in a recent interview that criticism of the Academy is “legitimate” and that, in addition to African-American actors, other minority actors have also been marginalized or ignored by the film industry, including gays.
Lord of the Rings director has issued a statement in defense of Bilgin Ciftci, a Turkish doctor who lost his job and is facing prison time for having shared a meme on social media that compared President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Gollum, the bony, greedy hermit of the books and film series.
A Turkish doctor, Bilgin Ciftci, is looking at two years in prison for daring to suggest that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks like Gollum, the ruined hobbit from The Lord of the Rings.
If you watch movies or television shows with any degree of regularity, there’s a good chance you’ve seen John Rhys-Davies’ work.
Lord of the Rings actor John Rhys-Davies decried Islamic terrorism and political correctness in an interview with podcast king Adam Carolla Monday night.
The irrepressible Sean Parker took to the Wall Street Journal editorial pages to announce that after building a $2.8 billion fortune, mostly from stealing music and selling peoples’ deepest secrets to marketers, he wants to reinvent his public reputation from that of a greedy loud-mouthed hacker to an old money philanthropist.
In a wide-ranging interview with Moviefone published over the weekend, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson slammed the current state of Hollywood movies, saying they are too “franchise-driven” and that he’d like to make smaller films
