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The Game of Thrones creator was speaking exclusively to The Independent during the Santa Fe Literary Festival

We were talking recently about how clever the Ukrainians had been to call the invading Russian troops "Orcs" even before all the atrocities in the Russian-occupied towns around Kyiv came to light. Then Tina said: "If Putin's troops are Orcs, then he must be Sauron."

Part one of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic swept all the technical awards at this year’s Academy awards – might part two become the second fantasy movie to win the ‘major’ one?

Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' prequel series can't use Gandalf, but that doesn't mean there aren't characters who can make up for his absence. Here’s how 'The Rings of Power' can still include a wizard (or two).

A blue plaque will celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien's link to the area

Original manuscripts show how author rewrote scenes for 1950s adaptation of his Middle-earth epic Lord of the Rings

Estate of Lord of the Rings author also publishes unseen draft manuscripts and letters on its website

Introduction of characters of color into Tolkien’s fantasy world has some fans complaining but as others point out, it’s not less authentic to cast Black actors

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power is a new story set thousands of years before JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings