When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a ...

Before Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, the 1977 animated Hobbit captured Tolkien’s tone and storytelling better than most adaptations.

Jillian (she/her) is a writer for the Movies & TV section at GameRant. She's always loved writing and been a voracious consumer of all kinds of media, so writing for GameRant has been the perfect ...

Everyone loves "The Lord of the Rings." They make up a quarter of the top 12 movies of all time on IMDb's top 250 movie list, for goodness' sake. "The Hobbit" films are less grand but still ...

Jillian (she/her) is a writer for the Movies & TV section at GameRant. She's always loved writing and been a voracious consumer of all kinds of media, so writing for GameRant has been the perfect ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

Middle-earth is full of the fantastic, but it’s not all sunshine and roses. For all of the mystical Elves and cheery Hobbits, there are a lot of terrifying monsters that pop up throughout J.R.R.