Parker Bennett is a graduate of Emerson College with more than 3 years of writing experience. He's been a fan and scholar of Tolkien's extended works for nearly his whole life, and is excited to be ...

If you're a fan of The Lord of the Rings--or even if you've just seen The Return of the King--you'll remember the horrifyingly large spider, Shelob. The monster very nearly kills Frodo, after all, ...

When J.R.R. Tolkein published The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he brought some of the most iconic villains to life. Peter Jackson's movie adaptations of these books gifted audiences with ...

Shelob is a great Spider who is known as the greatest child of the primordial spider, Ungoliant. Shelob’s story in The Lord of the Rings finds her living in a lair on the border of Mordor, in the pass ...

When Gollum decided once and for all that he wanted Frodo and Sam dead, he could have gone about it in a number of ways. However, he settled on leading them to Shelob, so that she could feast on them ...

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is considered a classic of the fantasy genre. Rightly so, given that the very world it is based upon was also the foundation for just about every fantasy concept out ...

The Lord of the Rings has a number of terrifying creatures appear over the course of the 3 films, but the scariest of all comes in the second movie after Frodo and Sam get separated. Gollum convinces ...

Reanna Gonzalez received her MFA in screenwriting and has been writing movie and television sceenplays for 5 years. She was mentored be Tony Award-winning playwright, Mark Medoff. She spends her free ...

There are many fascinating stories Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV show could tell. The series is set in the Second Age of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, which means it’s going to get to delve much further ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Rings of Power Season 2 has already teased fans with appearances from iconic villains from ...