Liv Tyler the Actress The daughter and youngest child of Elrond, Lady Arwen is the last flowering of Elvish beauty in Middle-earth. She is the grand-daughter of Galadriel, said by Tolkien to be the greatest of Elven women in Middle-earth, and mighty among the Wise, the leaders of the West in the Third Age. Arwen…
The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Wings, Oh My!
The Lord of the Rings seems an inadequate tool for settling the issues concerning Balrogs and Wings, so I propose the book should have been written in the following manner just to make things perfectly clear… Legolas turned and set an arrow to the string, though it was a long shot for his small bow….
The Lost Books of Arnor and Gondor
Often readers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings wonder just how large the Red Book of Westmarch must have been. Did Ronald, as translator of the ancient stories, embellish the original stories in any way, or was the Red Book as long as The Lord of the Rings? It was, in fact, much…
On the Elves of the Fourth Age
This article is part of Findegil’s Insider’s Guide to The Lord of the Rings I am sometimes asked, "What did Legolas’ people do in Ithilien?" This has always struck me as a rather strange question. What would one expect Elves to do in Ithilien? They lived there, of course. I do not know the proper…
Soaring with the Eagles
This article is part of Findegil’s Insider’s Guide to The Lord of the Rings I am quite surprised to find a great disturbance concerning the Eagles of Manwë. Perhaps you know of what I speak. This infernal question which ever and anon is raised by someone who feels Gwaihir the Windlord should have swooped down…
Fin’DE’gil – fin-DAY-gill
This article is part of Findegil’s Insider’s Guide to The Lord of the Rings I am Findegil. Many of you know me as the bloke who fixed up the Thain’s Copy of The Red Book of Westmarch. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (J.R.R. in short, "Ronald" to his friends) used the Red Book as a guide…
Practical Magic – Starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman
I saw a lot of movies in the theater during the summer of 1998. I remember seeing the still promos for “Practical Magic” while waiting for movie after movie and slowly building up anticipation for it. I like Sandra Bullock and have enjoyed most of the movies I’ve seen her in. I’m not so much…
Kevin Sorbo’s Hercules Made-for-TV Movies
There were five Action Pack movies starring Kevin Sorbo as Hercules. The fifth movie was a “clips” story, basically a short story interspersed with clips from the first four movies to extend it out. I don’t know why they did this since the concept behind the Minotaur story was pretty interesting. “Hercules And The Amazon…
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
The original articles on Xenite.Org about the movie “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” have been moved. You can now read them here: The Phantom Menace The Phantom Menace, Part 2 The Phantom Menace, Part 3