Bill Phillips is an award-winning columnist with 35 years of experience in community journalism.

Until Sam and Frodo, it's unlikely that Shelob had ever been truly challenged, since the slowness and dullness of Orcs ...

Aragorn played a crucial role in distracting Sauron and his forces at the Black Gate, allowing Frodo's final effort to destroy the Ring to go unnoticed. Hobbits, like Frodo, were not within Sauron ...

There is a scene in Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring in which Gandalf, recounting the history and reappearance of the fabled One Ring to Frodo, says, “The spirit of Sauron endured.” ...

With fire in his eye, this corporeal can-opener had the bling to keep all of Middle Earth in line. Who is Sauron, the Lord of ...

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He will be asked to bear the greatest power the world has ever know, a ring imbued with the very strength of Sauron and evil itself. But she will not give Frodo a weapon. Galadriel won’t give ...

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