The Wizard of Oz<\/strong><\/em><\/a> being just some defining titles of the genre\u2019s splendor on the big screen throughout the medium\u2019s history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Thankfully, for all lovers of fantasy, the first half of the 2020s has been something of a goldmine for the genre<\/strong> as well. Encompassing everything from major studio releases to streaming hits, from instantly revered masterpieces to hidden gems, and even everything from dark tales of revenge and glory to quaint and animated family adventures, these seven movies are true masterpieces of fantasy cinema<\/strong> in recent years.<\/p>\n\n
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Collider Exclusive \u00b7 Middle-earth Quiz<\/span>Which Lord of the Rings<\/em>Hobbit \u00b7 Elf \u00b7 Dwarf \u00b7 Man \u00b7 Orc<\/span><\/p>\n Middle-earth is home to many peoples \u2014 the courageous, the ancient, the stubborn, the ambitious, and the wretched. Ten questions will determine which race truly claims your soul. The answer may surprise you. Or it may confirm what you already suspected.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n
\ud83c\udf3f<\/span>Hobbit<\/span><\/p>\n\ud83c\udf1f<\/span>Elf<\/span><\/p>\n\u2692\ufe0f<\/span>Dwarf<\/span><\/p>\n\u2694\ufe0f<\/span>Man<\/span><\/p>\n\ud83d\udc80<\/span>Orc<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n FIND YOUR RACE \u2192<\/button>\n <\/p>\n<\/section>\n <\/p>\n\n\n
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What does your ideal day look like?<\/span>How we rest reveals as much as how we fight.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>A long meal with good company, a pipe, and absolutely no unexpected adventures.<\/button>B<\/span>Walking through ancient forests, composing verse, watching the stars emerge.<\/button>C<\/span>Deep underground, the clang of hammer on anvil, crafting something that will outlast me.<\/button>D<\/span>Training, planning, preparing \u2014 there’s always something that needs defending.<\/button>E<\/span>Taking what I want and making sure nobody tries to take it back.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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How do you feel about the passing of time?<\/span>Our relationship with mortality shapes everything we value.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>I have watched ages come and go. Time is a river I observe, not chase.<\/button>B<\/span>The days blur pleasantly. I don’t think about it much \u2014 there’s always second breakfast.<\/button>C<\/span>Life is short. I want to leave something behind \u2014 a name, a legacy, a deed worth singing.<\/button>D<\/span>Time means little underground. What matters is the work, and the work is never done.<\/button>E<\/span>Time is something stronger things take from weaker ones. I intend to be the stronger one.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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Danger is approaching. Your first instinct is to:<\/span>Fight, flight, or something in between \u2014 it’s more revealing than you’d think.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>Hide, and hope it passes. I’m no hero \u2014 and I’m fine with that.<\/button>B<\/span>Stand your ground. Someone has to, and it might as well be me.<\/button>C<\/span>Fade into the background and observe. Knowledge before action.<\/button>D<\/span>Charge straight at it. Hesitation is just fear wearing a sensible hat.<\/button>E<\/span>Dig in, fortify, and wait. Ground is everything \u2014 never cede ground.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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You stumble upon a great treasure. What do you feel?<\/span>What we desire \u2014 and what we do about it \u2014 is the true test.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>My heart swells \u2014 this is the work of my kin, and it belongs in my hands.<\/button>B<\/span>Excited, but nervous. I’d rather it not cause trouble. Can I just leave it?<\/button>C<\/span>Mine. Obviously mine. Why is this even a question?<\/button>D<\/span>Beautiful. Something this ancient deserves to be preserved and admired, not hoarded.<\/button>E<\/span>A resource \u2014 and resources should serve those with the vision to use them.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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How important is community and belonging to you?<\/span>No race of Middle-earth is truly alone \u2014 but some prefer it that way.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>Everything. My neighbours, my village, my people \u2014 they are the point of it all.<\/button>B<\/span>I cherish my kin deeply, but I feel connected to all living things, not just my own kind.<\/button>C<\/span>I’ll protect my people with everything I have \u2014 but I don’t need anyone else’s approval.<\/button>D<\/span>I prefer a tight-knit clan bound by loyalty and shared toil over any grand fellowship.<\/button>E<\/span>Community is a pack. You’re either dominant or you’re used. I know which I prefer.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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How ambitious are you, honestly?<\/span>Ambition is neither virtue nor vice \u2014 it depends entirely on what you want.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>Deeply. I want to build something great, reclaim something lost, or leave a mark on history.<\/button>B<\/span>I seek mastery and perfection \u2014 not power over others, but excellence in all I do.<\/button>C<\/span>Honestly? I mostly just want a quiet life and for things to not go wrong.<\/button>D<\/span>Completely. I want to dominate, and I don’t see any point in pretending otherwise.<\/button>E<\/span>Ambitious within my craft. I want to make the finest thing ever made by my people’s hands.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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Where do you feel most at home in the natural world?<\/span>Middle-earth is vast \u2014 and every race has its place within it.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>Ancient forests, still pools, places where the world feels oldest and wisest.<\/button>B<\/span>Rolling green hills, good soil, somewhere you can grow things and watch them thrive.<\/button>C<\/span>Underground \u2014 caves, mines, tunnels. The dark doesn’t bother me. It’s where things are made.<\/button>D<\/span>Open plains, mountains, the kind of landscape that makes you feel the weight of history.<\/button>E<\/span>Blasted wastelands, smoke, ash. Somewhere harsh enough to keep soft things away.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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What kind of strength do you most respect?<\/span>Every race defines strength differently \u2014 and they’re all at least a little right.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>The strength to carry on when everything is telling you to stop.<\/button>B<\/span>The strength of stone \u2014 immovable, reliable, tested by pressure and time.<\/button>C<\/span>The strength to lead others and bear the cost of that responsibility.<\/button>D<\/span>Grace under pressure \u2014 calm, precise, and lethal when it needs to be.<\/button>E<\/span>Brute force. Everything else is just philosophy for those who lost.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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What do you want to leave behind when you’re gone?<\/span>Legacy is the story we tell ourselves about why any of this matters.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>Songs, poetry, beauty \u2014 something that outlasts the memory of who made it.<\/button>B<\/span>The knowledge that my corner of the world was a little safer and kinder because of me.<\/button>C<\/span>Fear. A reputation that means nobody ever dares come for mine.<\/button>D<\/span>A name remembered. A deed that made a difference at a moment that mattered.<\/button>E<\/span>A masterwork \u2014 something crafted so perfectly it becomes the standard all others are judged by.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
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Be honest \u2014 what do you actually want most out of life?<\/span>The truest question always comes last.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n A<\/span>Peace. Safety. Good food, good friends, and no one asking me to save anything.<\/button>B<\/span>To matter. To be part of something larger than myself, even at great cost.<\/button>C<\/span>Eternity \u2014 to witness all ages, to remember everything, and never be forgotten.<\/button>D<\/span>Dominance. To never again be at the mercy of anyone or anything.<\/button>E<\/span>Mastery of my craft and the respect of those who know the difference between good work and great work.<\/button>\n <\/p>\n REVEAL MY RACE \u2192<\/button> <\/p>\n\n\n
Middle-earth Has Spoken<\/span>You Belong To\u2026<\/span><\/p>\nThe race that claimed the most of your answers is your true kin. If two tied, both are shown \u2014 you walk between worlds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u25c6 A TIE \u2014 YOU WALK BETWEEN TWO RACES \u25c6<\/p>\n
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\ud83c\udf3f<\/span><\/p>\nYour Race<\/p>\n
The Hobbits<\/span><\/p>\nYou are, at your core, a creature of comfort, community, and quiet joy \u2014 and there is nothing small about that. Hobbits are proof that heroism does not require ambition, that the bravest heart can beat inside the most unassuming chest. You value good food, warm hearths, close friends, and a world that stays largely untroubled by dark lords and quests. When adventure does find you \u2014 and it will \u2014 you rise to it not because you sought it, but because the people you love needed you to. That is not ordinary. That is the rarest kind of courage in all of Middle-earth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\ud83c\udf1f<\/span><\/p>\nYour Race<\/p>\n
The Elves<\/span><\/p>\nAncient, graceful, and carrying a weight of memory most mortals cannot fathom, you are one of the Elves. You see the world in its fullness \u2014 its beauty, its impermanence, the unbearable ache of watching everything you love eventually fade. You pursue perfection not from pride, but because excellence is how you honour the time you have been given. Others may see you as remote or melancholy. They are not wrong, exactly. But they mistake depth for distance. You feel everything \u2014 which is precisely why you have learned to carry it so quietly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u2692\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\nYour Race<\/p>\n
The Dwarves<\/span><\/p>\nStubborn, proud, fiercely loyal, and possessed of a work ethic that would exhaust most other races before breakfast \u2014 you are Dwarf-kind through and through. You do not ask for approval and you do not offer it cheaply. Your loyalty, once given, is given for life. Your grudges last longer. You love deeply and defend ferociously, and the things you build \u2014 with your hands, with your sweat, with generations of accumulated craft \u2014 are made to last. Not for glory. Because anything worth doing is worth doing properly, and you have never once done anything by half measures.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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