ANCHOR INTRO: Lost wax bronze casting is a 5000 year old art form but it is getting a new twist at the Grossmont College Sculpture Department. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando visits the foundry to ...

For a few years now, [Jomegat] has been thinking about Sting, the sword wielded by [Bilbo Baggins] and later [Frodo] in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Sting glows blue whenever an orc is near.

They’re searching for something. Some sort of weapon, perhaps? The soldiers of Sauron aren’t just taking captives to dig secret tunnels on The Rings of Power; they’re ransacking towns. Arondir thinks ...