There might be no better argument for the 'Lord of the Rings' extended editions than a particularly baffling cut from the ...
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is clearly a huge fantasy fan, but one of his Lord of the Rings criticisms misses the point of Gandalf's death. Martin has a reputation for killing off ...
In his own novels, characters who return from death are never the same; they always lose something of their humanity or their original essence. For Martin, Gandalf’s resurrection as Gandalf the ...