Fantasy has become one of the most popular genres in the world, and much of that can be credited to the work of The Lord of the Rings movies and the Game of Thrones TV show. Both projects opened the eyes of fans and creatives to what could be accomplished when a big budget is given to a fantasy project, with a creative at the forefront committed to bringing a beautiful new world to life. Even now, all these years later, fantasy projects continue to dominate streaming charts and the box office.
Another popular fantasy project to emerge in the last few years is Outlander, which debuted on Starz in 2014 and is set to conclude next month with an explosive and emotional Season 8 finale. The first Outlander spin-off arrived in August last year, and this afternoon, Starz officially unleashed the first trailer for Season 2 of Outlander: Blood of My Blood. It’s still unclear when Season 2 will premiere, other than this Fall, but now that the first trailer and images are out, this announcement is likely coming sooner rather than later. The ensemble cast for Season 2 includes Hermione Corfield as Julia, Jeremy Irvine as Henry, Harriet Slater as Ellen, Jamie Roy as Brian, McLean Ross as Colum Mackenzie, Sam Retford as Dougal MacKenzie, Rory Alexander as Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser, and Conor MacNeill as Ned Gowan.
Collider Exclusive · Middle-earth Quiz Which Lord of the Rings Race Do You Belong To? Hobbit · Elf · Dwarf · Man · Orc
Middle-earth is home to many peoples — 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.
🌿Hobbit
🌟Elf
⚒️Dwarf
⚔️Man
💀Orc
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What does your ideal day look like? How we rest reveals as much as how we fight.
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How do you feel about the passing of time? Our relationship with mortality shapes everything we value.
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Danger is approaching. Your first instinct is to: Fight, flight, or something in between — it’s more revealing than you’d think.
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You stumble upon a great treasure. What do you feel? What we desire — and what we do about it — is the true test.
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How important is community and belonging to you? No race of Middle-earth is truly alone — but some prefer it that way.
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How ambitious are you, honestly? Ambition is neither virtue nor vice — it depends entirely on what you want.
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Where do you feel most at home in the natural world? Middle-earth is vast — and every race has its place within it.
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What kind of strength do you most respect? Every race defines strength differently — and they’re all at least a little right.
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What do you want to leave behind when you’re gone? Legacy is the story we tell ourselves about why any of this matters.
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Be honest — what do you actually want most out of life? The truest question always comes last.
Middle-earth Has Spoken You Belong To…
The race that claimed the most of your answers is your true kin. If two tied, both are shown — you walk between worlds.
◆ A TIE — YOU WALK BETWEEN TWO RACES ◆
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Your Race
The Hobbits
You are, at your core, a creature of comfort, community, and quiet joy — 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 — and it will — 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.
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Your Race
The Elves
Ancient, graceful, and carrying a weight of memory most mortals cannot fathom, you are one of the Elves. You see the world in its fullness — 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 — which is precisely why you have learned to carry it so quietly.
⚒️
Your Race
The Dwarves
Stubborn, proud, fiercely loyal, and possessed of a work ethic that would exhaust most other races before breakfast — 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 — with your hands, with your sweat, with generations of accumulated craft — 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.
⚔️
Your Race
The Race of Men
Mortal, ambitious, flawed, and magnificent — you belong to the most complicated race in Middle-earth, and that complexity is your greatest strength. Men are capable of cowardice and extraordinary bravery, of cruelty and breathtaking sacrifice, sometimes within the same breath. You feel the urgency of your finite years, and it drives you. You want to matter. You want to leave something behind. You fall, and you rise, and the rising is what defines you. Tolkien called mortality the Gift of Men — not a curse, but a fire that burns bright precisely because it does not burn forever. That fire is you.
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Your Race
The Orcs
Brutal, survivalist, and contemptuous of anything that can’t defend itself — you answered with the instincts of an Orc, and there is a certain savage honesty in that. You do not dress up your desires in polite language or pretend you want things you don’t. You want power, survival, and to never be at the bottom of any hierarchy ever again. Orcs are not evil by nature — they were made from something that was once good, and broken into this shape by forces they did not choose. What remains is fierce, territorial, and deeply aware that the world is not kind. You’ve made your peace with that. The question is what you do with it.
What’s Going To Happen In The Next Season of ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’?
Starz shared an official recap of Season 1 with a synopsis for Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 which reads as follows: “In Season 1, Claire’s parents, Henry and Julia, began a romance through the letters they exchanged from the war-torn battlefields of WWI, but were tested in new ways when an unexpected journey back in time left them lost and separated in the sweeping highlands of 18th century Scotland. Meanwhile, it was love at first sight for Ellen and Brian. Despite being members of two rival clans, the two began a forbidden romance and vowed their eternal love, choosing each other over tradition, politics, and familial obligations.
By the end of the season, both couples were on the precipice of a big change. After fighting to find their way back to one another, Henry and Julia were at the standing stones of Craig Na Dun, hoping to return to their own time, and Brian and Ellen’s romantic escape was interrupted as the 1715 Jacobite Rising began, thrusting the clans into war. As Season 2 unfolds, the two young couples will be tested and separated by forces beyond their control, as every clan chooses a side in the rebellion.”
Check out the first season of Outlander: Blood of my Blood on Starz and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the series.
