The Balrog, trolls, and Dragons are just a few of the terrifying monsters that stalk the heroes of Middle-earth.

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Middle-earth has some of the scariest fantasy creatures in storytelling, and Tolkien's creatures have come to terrifying life ...

I thought about this later, and it brought to mind a scene at the end of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic, The Hobbit, in which the dying Thorin Oakenshield says to Bilbo Baggins, “If more of us valued food ...

Adapting a novel to film or television is a notoriously tricky business. Filmmakers and screenwriters have to juggle various impulses, deciding which characters to include and which to exclude.