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?

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.

The “Lord of the Rings” series at Amazon has unveiled its full title in a new video. In the video (see below), molten metal is seen filling in grooves in a piece of wood while a woman…

Amazon Prime series base on Robert Jordan's books

Magical Mountain is the first in the four-part Kingdom of Treasures series by Asmaa Jamil. What began as a screenplay, Magical Mountain is part of the growing wave of fiction advancing strong female leads. In this case, she retells the Cinderella story from the fairy’s perspective.

My approach to world-building is a bit smoke and mirrors – there’s only as much as you need to carry the story. I think of it as one of those sets they used to have for cowboy films: the facades look good, but if you walk around the back, it’s all props and plywood. I don’t want to sound lazy, but I want to do as little as possible. I don’t need to know how the sewage system works to tell a story about someone on another planet.

With a panel of leading fantasy authors, TIME presents the 100 most engaging, inventive and influential works of fantasy fiction

After 26 years, an epic science-fiction story is being retold. Denis Villeneuve, with an all-star cast alongside him, is attempting to breath new life into Dune with an adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert.

Director Denis Villeneuve's adaptation provokes mixed reactions among Ars staffers.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shirley Ann Grau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer whose stories and novels told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South, has died. She was...

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In Bram Stoker’s iconic vampire novel Dracula, the eponymous count warns his pursuers, “My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.” Those who have read the novel or watched one of its countless adaptations will know that the count’s threat was empty. His revenge, and the count himself, were literally cut short. But while Dracula the character was killed, Dracula the book remains immortal, with horror readers and authors of all eras since genuflecting to its example.

Cory Olsen, aka The Tolkien Professor, explains how Tolkien’s hobbit stories got fused with his earlier mythologic work around languages he created to become the Tolkien universe inhabited by…

The three-time Hugo award winner is one of the biggest names in modern scifi. She talks about overcoming racism to rewrite the future

On what would have been the late Discworld creator’s 72nd birthday, Terry Pratchett’s production company Narrativia has announced a new development deal to create “truly authentic … prestige adaptations that remain absolutely faithful to [his] original, unique genius”.

From the east came the Bone Giants, from the south, the fire-wielding Hathrim – an invasion that sparked war across the six nations of Teldwen. The kingdom’s only hope is the discovery of a new form of magic that calls the world’s wondrous beasts to fight by the side of humankind.