These women from popular science fiction and fantasy novels can face down dark lords, aliens, and all sorts of evil to protect the ones they love.

Bargain hunters everywhere, listen up. HBO just put out a limited-time offer, and you better act fast. For just one order of a second season of House of the Dragon, you can get five extra dragons. You read that right: five all-new dragons! House of the Dragon co-creator Ryan Condal promised “five new dragons” at a recent FYC screening in Los Angeles, which showed episode eight of the series, “The Lord of the Tides,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

This article discusses "7 Reasons to Ignore the Negative Reviews for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" and does not include spoilers.

Ron Howard and George Lucas’ 1988 fantasy epic Willow aimed to do for fantasy cinema what Star Wars had done for science fiction. While it didn’t quite live up to that lofty promise, Willow remains a cult favorite, a pillar of the crop of 1980s fantasy films that delighted adults and both terrified and enthralled children.

Kristin Cashore, author of the Graceling series and "Jane Unlimited"

Author Nick Martell breaks down the challenges of writing fantasy fiction and offers five tips for writing a fantasy trilogy.

The House of the Dragon bosses are promising the second season will deliver more of the thrills and spills familiar to the millions of Thrones fans tuning in, along with more humour along the lines of the original series. Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal told The Times in London that producers deliberately slowed down the narrative for the first season, to ensure viewers were invested in the new characters.

To no fault of actor Charlie Vickers — or maybe to great praise — we knew something was up with Halbrand the minute he picked Galadriel up in the Sundering Seas early on in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Through eight episodes, the reluctant king of the Southlands was always a little out of place among the epic ebb and flow of Middle-earth drama. Turns out, he had a big secret.

“I’m sure somebody will show me a photograph,” he said, about his character’s big moment on Sunday night. The actor discussed the inspiration and meaning for King Viserys’s decline.

House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal explains why he doesn't see a rivalry between the HBO series and Amazon's Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The first in The Nameless Republic trilogy. A complex world with a very un-European civilization. Very readable.

When talking about era-defining television shows, Game of Thrones has to be on the top of the list. The high fantasy drama aired for the central eight years of the 2010s and was undoubtedly one of the most influential shows of all time when it was in its prime. It was one of those rare shows where once you watched it, you either loved it and couldn’t get enough, or you hated it and couldn’t look away because literally everyone else you know was watching it. Game of Thrones is one of the few true “cultural phenomena” of the 21st century, and it’s likely that everyone realizes that especially because of how badly it crashed and burned.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the best series of films ever made.

Turkey is not the word. No turkey, however bloated and stupid, could ever be big enough to convey the mesmerising awfulness of Amazon's billion dollar Tolkien epic. The Daily Mail has deleted this review. Pressure from Amazon?

Amazon poured a reported $1 billion into this J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired epic — and it shows

Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens nove...

Buckle up, fantasy fans: the world of magic rings, massive furry feet, and mountain-dwelling mead-drinkers is about to return. Middle-earth is making a comeback in The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, Prime Video’s long-awaited streaming series set to bring a whole new age of J.R.R. Tolkien’s saga on screen. Set thousands of years before the events of Peter Jackson’s trilogy, this will be a whole new story in a whole new part of the timeline, dealing with the forging of the rings, the rise of Sauron, and all kinds of interweaving tales of Elves, Dwarves, Harfoots and more.

The ‘Game of Thrones’ creator sits down with Kevin E G Perry at the Santa Fe Literary Festival to discuss toxic fans, the enduring influence of Marvel’s Stan Lee, and the new HBO series ‘House of the Dragon’

There comes a time in most people’s lives, certainly in most writers lives, when they’ll need to start thinking about how to bury a body. A dead body that is. It can’t be that hard, can it? After all, we’ve seen them do it on TV. A brief shot of a spade (or is it a shovel?) in action, a brief cut in the film, and the body is next to the grave ready to be disposed of. The sides of the grave are always nice and neat and self-supporting as well, so how hard can it be?