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 ...

The Shire's isolation limits popular character appearances, but Radagast the Brown brings a unique charm to the game. Radagast's love for nature and simple personality make him a perfect fit for the ...

Gandalf is the only Wizard who travels to the Undying Lands at the end of The Lord of the Rings, and there are particular reasons for this. One of the many scenes in The Return of the King's ending ...

In The Lord of the Rings, there are five main wizards who are mentioned, but fans of the movies are most likely familiar with only two of them: Gandalf and Saruman. While the wizards in Middle-earth ...

The Rings of Power may be set thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, but that doesn't mean it's completely disconnected from J. R. R. Tolkien's iconic trilogy. Of course, ...

Now that 'The Rings of Power' has confirmed that The Stranger is an Istar, many believe he's Gandalf. But the Amazon series could be misleading us again. Although The Rings of Power Episode 8 reveals ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the season finale of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The three witches from the land of Rhûn in the far east track down the Stranger thinking that ...

What is an Istar? I'm glad you asked. You may know your Hobbits from your Harfoots, but one of the more fantastical races currently in Middle-earth is the Istar ...

The Hobbit trilogy was, in many ways, the ideal prequel. It expanded the world of The Lord of the Rings with familiar characters, like Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), while ...

The meteor man remains a mystery, but a much smaller mystery now that the entire first season of Rings of Power is out. Russell Holly is a Managing Editor on the Commerce team at CNET. He works with ...