The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Rings of Power: episode by episode
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power recap episode eight – finally, evil shows its faceIn this first season finale, mysteries are answered, characters show their true selves and we say goodbye to a friendly face
‘Irish people have faced centuries of discrimination’: why are Lord of the Rings’ accents so offensively bad?
The harfoots’ accents in The Rings of Power aren’t just deeply inappropriate – they’re awful. But Amazon’s drama isn’t the first fantasy show to struggle with dialect …
The Rings of Power: episode by episode
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power recap episode five – who are the weird folk in white gowns?Are they waiting for The Stranger? But why? To worship him? Or to kill him? And how did they get 71 minutes of TV out of such a small amount of story?
The Rings of Power: episode by episode
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power recap: episode four – the Queen stops being angry!The most-prized metal in Middle-earth is being kept secret, and after a blurry glimpse last week, Adar is revealed to us
Elijah who? The amazing new stars of The Lord of the Rings
As The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power comes to TV, its young cast talk about replacing Cate Blanchett, being the saga’s first Black main character, and going to the pub in prosthetics
The reader interview
Andy Serkis: ‘Living with Gollum would be a nightmare – he’d steal, argue and leave a mess everywhere’The actor and director answers readers’ questions about his performance-capture film roles, playing sax at parties in pre-hipster Shoreditch and being mistaken for Michael Sheen
Pixel wizards: meet the unsung heroes bringing your favourite films to life
Forget directors, the real stars behind the likes of The Jungle Book and Star Wars are the VFX artists who build their digital worlds. We report from the cutting edge festival offering a glimpse into the secret life of cinema
Guardians of the Galaxy tops list of deadliest films with 83,871 fatalities
Three JRR Tolkien films also make the top 10, suggesting family entertainment is more perilous than horror movies
Christopher Lee: an actor of muscular intelligence with a staggering career
From his electrifying roles as Count Dracula, to his venerable turns in Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, Christopher Lee possessed a rare grace and charm
Will The Hobbit spark social revolution?
Letters: The appeal of The Lord of the Rings films lay in the courage that people saw in the small characters who made a difference despite their size
Bored of the rings? No more Tolkien, says Peter Jackson – but Ian McKellen suspects otherwise
Director says that the likes of The Silmarillion out of bounds for film-makers unless Tolkien estate has change of heart, as Hobbit star McKellen later predicts
Film blog
Comic-Con trailer paradise for Hollywood's 2014 movie blockbustersGlimpses of the new Hobbit and Hunger Games, along with Sin City 2 and Horns were among studio hopefuls on offer to comic-book fans at the San Diego convention, reports Ben Child
Role model
Why I'd like to be … Robert De Niro in HeatContinuing our series in which writers reveal which movie characters they emulate, Rowan Righelato discloses that he's Robert De Niro on his commute, Tim Roth in a row and Viggo Mortensen while rambling
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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring