Although we are not surprised that LEGO managed to inject so much heart and narrative into its Barad-dûr set, we remain ...

LEGO’s latest The Lord of the Rings set takes us on a truly glorious journey into darkness, one that, sometimes literally, and sometimes metaphorically, glows, burns, seeps, cuts, surprises ...

Underlying much of Tolkien’s writings, especially in his The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a deeply embedded theme of technology versus nature. In Tolkien’s eye, the oily, smoking march of ...

The Lord of the Rings has many great characters, but I think that two of its most important have been overlooked by fans for ...

Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone ...

Anduril, christened for a sword in “The Lord of the Rings” whose Elvish name means ... are veterans of Palantir, which sells data analysis software to government, including defense and ...

Palantir – which the Tolkien-obsessed Thiel named after the palantiri: the all-seeing stones used by the evil wizard Sauron in The Lord of the Rings – was founded as a defence contractor ...