While the differences between Orcs and Uruk-hai are clear in The Lord of the Rings, their precise origins are less obvious in ...

Fans of The Lord of the Rings are very familiar with the species of Orcs; horrible, brutish creatures who serve the Dark Lord Sauron in his conquest of Middle-Earth. Interestingly, in both Peter ...

Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum has a “great” script, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav has said. Speaking during a ...

A lot of Tolkien's world-building was unclear or never fully explained (or he himself changed his mind on it), so there are other sources that Orcs didn't come from Elves at all, mainly because ...

But there’s unlikely to be a place in Mordor for an Adar that orcs will love more than they fear Sauron. In the final episode of The Rings of Power, Halbrand, who we now know to be Sauron, seems ...

In episode 7 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s first season, Adar and his orcs finally come to their purpose-made homeland, which will one day become the stronghold of Sauron: Mordor.

But by far the biggest surprise for me was Shadow of Mordor’s much-vaunted Nemesis system, a complex gameplay mechanic that gives each and every orc you encounter a unique personality, all ...

The Mordor in the game is one in transition, filled with orc camps and villages, as Sauron is building up the massive army seen in Lord of the Rings.

Maybe I'll give The Two Towers another shot. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is available on the Xbox One, PS4, and PC on September 30th, with a Xbox 360 and PS3 version launching on November 18th.