MCV is reporting that they’ve found confirmation of a Lego: Lord of the Rings game in the brochure for the new LOTR toys.
Well, aw. I have to admit a fondness for Leonard Nimoy’s Hobbit Song, but this is on a whole new level. For starters, it’s actually good.
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.
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!
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.
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…
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!]
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.
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.
