Twitter CEO Elon Musk spent part of his Sunday comparing the old platform to J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings fantasy character Wormtongue. The character Wormtongue is considered by fans to be an ...

Arguably the best film of the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is most lauded for the epic Battle of Helm's Deep. There is no argument to be made that these scenes deserve their iconic ...

Tolkein's characters tend to spare the lives of the wrong person at the wrong time. There is no better example than this: When Gandalf frees Theoden from Saruman's spell, Theoden's first instinct is ...

FREEDOM loving Boris Johnson is under the “spell” of his gloomy Lord of the Rings’ ‘Wormtongue’ advisers, one his biggest backers declared tonight. Brexiteer Steve Baker blasted the Prime Minister’s ...

There are plenty of different villains throughout Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings, and though Wormtongue wasn’t anywhere near the levels of the likes of Sauron, Saruman, or even Gollum, he was ...

Advisor to King Theóden of Rohan and the wizard Saruman’s henchman, Grima Wormtongue exemplifies the destructive effects of sycophancy. Tolkien’s very name for this wheedling creature highlights his ...

Just when you thought you had the Middle-earth family tree close to memorized, along comes the sequel. So break out your erasers, ye non Fellowship savvy — which should represent, oh, maybe .000001 ...