It belonged not to Sauron but to his master: Morgoth, the original Dark Lord. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Tolkien's son, Christopher, collected much of his father's unpublished Middle-earth ...

When the Valar finally ousted Morgoth due to the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age, Sauron became the second Dark Lord to terrorize Middle-earth. The Rings of Power's opening history lesson ...

Mirkwood was eventually saved from evil, but it wasn’t easy. After being vanquished during the Last Alliance, the spirit of ...

Prior to the Second Age, the First Age ended with the defeat of the first Dark Lord and Sauron's master, Morgoth. Sauron himself, though, is still out there somewhere. The trailers for The Rings ...

We never get much information about Gothmog in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King, and some even believe he wasn't an ...

According to J.R.R. Tolkien's stories and appendices, that great evil was the first Dark Lord Morgoth, who vanished alongside his lieutenant Sauron. As fans very well know, Sauron re-enters the fray ...

Tolkien describes multiple origins for Orcs, one of which suggests they were Elves corrupted by Morgoth ... Dark Lord. One explanation is that in his arrogance and obsession with domination ...