He writes about the latest TV shows and movies, and particularly loves all things horror. Tolkien never made much time for explaining the magic of Middle-earth. He would describe its mountains and ...

Please verify your email address. Readers and viewers of The Lord of the Rings are introduced to this character as Gandalf the Grey, a powerful Wizard who travels throughout Middle-earth.

Indeed it is! Listening to Tolkien’s voice both shaped McKellen’s depiction of Gandalf, and assured him that the adaptations were in keeping with the author’s original intent. “We found a ...

Alongside Gandalf, these include the beings who will one day become known as Saruman the White, Radagast the Brown, and two Blue Wizards, whose names, according to Unfinished Tales are Alatar and ...

Runes can be acquired from a variety of high-level content in Diablo 4, and each Rune has a particular name and effect or trigger condition. When combined in a certain order into sockets on gear ...

Especially not if you can see gray. More and more, we’re thinking the Stranger on The Rings of Power might be the wizard Gandalf himself. No man, elf, dwarf, or orc could have survived a comet ...

THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...

Who are you to give it to them?" Sound familiar? Well, that quote is very similar to one that Gandalf utters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings books. In The Fellowship of the Ring ...

I've analyzed every episode of season 2 and compared it to Tolkien's collected works. Russell Holly is a Managing Editor on the Commerce team at CNET. He works with all of CNET to assemble top ...

Now that Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is finally in the books, it's been officially confirmed that Daniel Weyman's mysterious Stranger is indeed Gandalf the Grey.

He then responds to the Stranger’s concern by quoting Gandalf’s chat with Frodo in Moria during Fellowship of the Ring, saying that many who live deserve to die and some who die deserve to live.