Lord Of The Rings

PC

Middle Earth Is Being Recreated, Tower By Tower, In The Elder Scrolls

5:00PM February 9, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

Ever since EA binned The White Council, I’ve been dying for an open-world RPG set in the world of The Lord of the Rings. I am also far from the only one, as a team of modders has been working on building themselves just that, using Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls games as a base. More »


In Real Life

Your First Good Look At The LEGO Lord Of The Rings Minifigs

2:20PM January 25, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

When LEGO’s Lord of the Rings sets were first announced, we only got a look at what Frodo and Aragorn would look like as the company’s iconic minifigs. Now we’ve got a much better look! More »


In Real Life

There Will Be Official Lego Lord Of The Rings

10:40PM December 16, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Lego and Warner Bros. have just announced that the Danish toy company has picked up the rights to produce playsets based on both Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings film trilogy, along with both new Hobbit movies. More »


News

Quiver At The Sight Of Lord Of The Rings: War In The North’s Collector’s Edition

1:00AM November 2, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

I arrived home after a weekend away to find a long cardboard box waiting for me, and in it was the PS3 collector’s edition of Lord of the Rings: War in the North. It’s a long and skinny box, a different shape than the large, square statue-holders from other games. More »


PC

Middle Earth Is No Place For Americans

7:30PM September 26, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

I like where Warner Bros is going with Lord of the Rings: War In the North. It’s got the polish of the movie games with a new story that should give it some breathing room. But that narration… More »


PC

There And Back Again, A Minecraft Story

5:00PM July 25, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

The team behind Minecraft Middle Earth is building, on a reduced scale, the land of Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings. If you think that’s bananas, this walkthrough video above goes for half an hour and only covers the journey from The Shire to the Mines of Moria.

LotR fans will know that, well, that’s not very far.

It’s a fascinating exercise in volunteer labour, so to see how it’s being done (or if you want to help out), check out the link below.

Minecraft Middle-Earth [MME, thanks MtlAngelus!]


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LOTR: War In The North Is D-Day Of Middle Earth, Only With Loot

10:30AM March 10, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

There is another great war in J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings saga, a bloody battle set in the north of Middle Earth. This front is the setting of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, the fantasy world’s equivalent of the Allied invasion of Normandy, says developer Snowblind Studios. More »


News

Lord Of The Rings Tripled Its Revenue By Going Free-To-Play

5:00PM January 7, 2011 | Owen Good

In a podcast, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online said that the switch over to a freemium play model has already tripled the revenue coming in from the MMO. More »


News

Hubble Discovers Mordor In Space!

10:05AM November 24, 2010 | Charlie Jane Anders

Mount Doom doesn’t lay inside the heart of the black land of Mordor after all — it’s in a stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, judging from a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. More »


There Will Be Orc Blood In Lord Of The Rings: War In The North

12:00AM August 28, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

Finally, you can amputate and decapitate an Orc, thanks to Snowblind Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, the hack, slash and loot adventure with the Tolkien stamp of approval. More »