PC

Celebrate Five Years Of Lord Of The Rings Online With Free Stuff

Has it really been five years since Turbine took the world’s most beloved fantasy world and transformed it into a massively multiplayer online game adored by a handful of players until it went free-to-play? Well I sure hope so; otherwise this post is pretty pointless.


November 4, 2011
PC

Game Reviewers Protest Middle-Earth’s Senseless War In The North

There once was a small hobbit that left the Shire on a grand adventure, performing brave deeds and overcoming impossible odds for the sake of all Middle-Earth. This is not his story.


October 29, 2011
PC

Lord Of The Rings: War In The North Has Launch Trailer

With Skyrim-lust whipping fantasy role-playing game fans into a frothy puddle, perhaps November 1 is the best possible time for Warner Bros. to release The Lord of the Rings: War in the North.


September 10, 2011
News

A Look At The Lord Of The Rings Online’s Gap Of Rohan

Here’s a look at the upcoming Rise of Isengard expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online massively multiplayer online game.


August 3, 2011
PlayStation

The Lord Of The Rings Goes To War In The North In November

Our video game November gets more crowded today with the release date(s) of Snowblind’s The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. The PS3, Xbox 360 and Games for Windows RPG hits November 1 in North America, November 2 in Australia and November 4 in Europe.


May 24, 2011
PC

The Witcher Takes A Swing At The Lord Of The Rings

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is a dark and gritty sword and sorcery game, so removed from Tolkien’s legendary high fantasy epic that it takes a moment to swipe at it from afar.


February 18, 2011
PC

Creating An Entirely New Heroic Tale Of Middle-Earth

In this behind-the-scenes trailer for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, developer Snowblind Studios tackles the daunting task of filling out areas and stories of Middle-Earth that J. R. R. Tolkien only hinted at.


January 4, 2011
In Real Life

Raise A Glass To The Father Of High Fantasy

Today we celebrate the birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien, the English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor whose contributions to English literature forever changed the way we imagine fantasy worlds.


November 19, 2010
In Real Life

Leaving Lord Of The Rings 4 Dead

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As someone who loves zombies almost as much as I love Lord of the Rings, this is certainly something: it’s a Left 4 Dead map made to look like the fortress of Helm’s Deep.


June 1, 2010
News

Guillermo Del Toro Not Directing The Hobbit

Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Cronos) was slated to direct two feature films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. He was already to go! And now, he’s not.