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One of the Best Fantasy Series Ever Made Is Officially Streaming for Free

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15 April 2026

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If you’re looking forward to the Baldur’s Gate TV series that’s currently in development, and have already watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, don’t fret, as there is another fantasy title of the same caliber that just became available to stream for free. The series was well-received by audiences and will bring viewers back to a time when sitting down for Saturday morning cartoons was a thing.

Dungeons & Dragons has been an ongoing media franchise since its creation in 1974 by Gary Gygax. The popular tabletop game was featured in numerous shows like Stranger Things, The Big Bang Theory, and Ted, and inspired content creators to livestream their games, with some of the most popular including Critical Role and Dimension 20. Alongside its fan interpretations of the game, Dungeons & Dragons also released its own media, most recently 2022’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. But before that Chris Pine-led feature made it to the big screen, there was another band of adventurers entertaining kids in the 80s, and now it’s available to stream for free.

On the official Dungeons & Dragons YouTube channel, episodes of the Dungeons & Dragons: Animated Series were published, giving 80s and 90s kids another chance to watch the cartoon. This TV series aired on CBS from 1983 to 1985, spanning three seasons and 27 episodes, and followed a group of kids who were transported into a fantasy world and now had to find a way back home while utilizing the abilities of different Dungeons & Dragons classes thanks to their dungeon master. As of writing, the YouTube channel has the first 11 episodes available to stream.

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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

What does your ideal day look like?
How we rest reveals as much as how we fight.

How do you feel about the passing of time?
Our relationship with mortality shapes everything we value.

Danger is approaching. Your first instinct is to:
Fight, flight, or something in between — it’s more revealing than you’d think.

You stumble upon a great treasure. What do you feel?
What we desire — and what we do about it — is the true test.

How important is community and belonging to you?
No race of Middle-earth is truly alone — but some prefer it that way.

How ambitious are you, honestly?
Ambition is neither virtue nor vice — it depends entirely on what you want.

Where do you feel most at home in the natural world?
Middle-earth is vast — and every race has its place within it.

What kind of strength do you most respect?
Every race defines strength differently — and they’re all at least a little right.

What do you want to leave behind when you’re gone?
Legacy is the story we tell ourselves about why any of this matters.

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 ◆

🌿

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.

🌟

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.

💀

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 Else To Watch if You Like ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Animated Series’

As Dungeons & Dragons continues to upload more episodes of the animated series, there are other titles that are just as good and can serve as a buffer before new episodes drop on the channel. The first are The Legends of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein, two Prime Video animated series based on the Critical Role live streams. The Legend of Vox Machina has already released three seasons, with a fourth scheduled for June 2026. Meanwhile, The Mighty Nein released its first season in November 2025, and Season 2 is confirmed to be on the way.

Another show worth watching is Delicious in Dungeon, which is available on Netflix. While it’s not a D&D-based show, it does feature different races and classes, a giant red dragon, and a mad wizard who created a dungeon filled with monsters. This series is based on a manga of the same name, published from 2014 to 2023, and the first season contained 24 episodes. Season 2 has already been confirmed, but a release date has not yet been announced.

Dungeons & Dragons: Animated Series is available to stream on YouTube. Follow Collider for more updates.