j.r.r. tolkien
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Makes You Take Your Time, And That’s Great
The true joy of Dragon’s Dogma 2 is that it asks you to slow down and take its world in. That rules, actually.
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Somewhere In The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, There’s An Orc That Looks Like Harvey Weinstein
Lord of the Rings’ road to blockbuster movie stardom wasn’t all Kingsfoil and bountiful Hobbit luncheons. Peter Jackson’s vision for J.R.R. Tolkien’s vast world was incredibly ambitious, and a point of contention with production studios he attempted to convince to let him bring the fantasy saga to life. One particularly contentious producer in the saga’s…
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Cyberpunk 2077’s Retrofuturistic World Is Worth Exploring Beneath the Flaws
When Cyberpunk 2077 came out last December, all eyes were on what I like to call “the little game that couldn’t.” CD Projekt Red’s long-anticipated dive into the cyberpunk genre was laden with bugs, glitches, and reports of horrible work conditions for the development team. Six months later, enough patches have come out to make…
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Just How Big Is Bag End? Let These Middle-earth Cross Sections Lay It Out
Bag End, the home of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, is where The Lord of the Rings Saga begins and ends. It’s there the dwarves come to meet about travelling to the Lonely Mountain and where Samwise Gamgee settled after the Baggins leave Middle-earth. There are few more important places in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic saga,…