Based on one of J. R. R. Tolkien's letters, he would have approved of this key scene being excluded from the theatrical cut ...

The plot of The Lord of the Rings would have unfolded very differently if Saruman's forces had defeated the Rohirrim during the Battle of Helm's Deep.

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Why Could the Stranger Be Saruman? Ultimately, we don’t know who the Stranger is, aside from being an Istar, or a wizard. Five wizards came to Middle-earth, so the Stranger could be any of them. When ...

LOS ANGELES – In "The Fellowship of the Ring," Christopher Lee (search) appeared as the traitorous elder wizard Saruman (search), whose snowy white beard and robe hid his black-hearted intentions for ...

Like much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s lore, the history of Istari during the Second Age is a muddled mess of conflicting tales, timelines, and monikers. In some accounts he wrote the Valar sent Istari to ...

Sadly, Christopher Lee passed away in 2015, long before The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim was conceived of and created. But despite this, we will see Christopher Lee return as Saruman in ...

"Learned and powerful, Saruman devoted himself to studying the ways of his enemy, that he might therein devise a means of defeating him. To this end, he amassed within his tower a vast library of ...

“When we reached out to Gitte, Lady Lee, who’s sadly no longer with us… she said the thing that I think Peter [Jackson] felt in his heart, which was that Sir Christopher would have wanted this,” ...

History happens, it is transmitted from generation to generation, sometimes it is idealized, and at other times it becomes legend. As a story, Éowyn narrates the events of an ancient war waged by her ...