Yet the name known best to fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is The Necromancer. In The Hobbit, Gandalf left Thorin’s company to deal with the threat of The Necromancer, though at the ...

Lord of the Rings' Sauron, the Dark Lord, has a frightening shape under his armor that many fans have yet to see.

One could assume Mirkwood is an unimportant location, given how it almost vanishes from Tolkien's pages after The Hobbit 's self-contained adventure concludes. But the assorted posthumous notes the ...