During our most recent Gaming Chat, the people from Black Label Games and Surreal Software revealed that they would be releasing a demo of the Fellowship of the Ring. This is now available for download. It weighs in at around 132MB, and includes sections from the Hobbiton (played as Frodo), Weathertop (played as Aragorn), and Moria (played as Gandalf) levels. [More]
Day: October 26, 2002
Famous Players in Canada is holding a TTT contest. As a promotion for its Letterbox subscribers at famousplayers.com, entrants fill out a quick form for a draw to win 2 tickets to the TTT exhibit in Toronto and 2 TTT tickets for an advance screening.
Moiraine writes: Although the articles (as usual) are unfortunately full of bad puns, the October 25th edition of Entertainment Weekly featured a two-page spread on The Two Towers game for Playstation 2 by EA. [More]
From Moiraine
Although the articles (as usual) are unfortunately full of bad puns, the October 25th edition of Entertainment Weekly featured a two-page spread on The Two Towers game for Playstation 2 by EA. The article features pics of Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli figures, a FotR review of a Tolkien fan (but not gamer), and the obliging Elijah Wood’s comments on his gaming habit and how that worked on the shoot. The game itself got a B+, not a bad rating from EW.
I was unable to find a decent link on the website (which by the bye is advertising the Extended Edition of Fellowship all over the place). Here is an excerpt from the “It’s in the Baggins: LotR Star Elijah Wood Can’t Kick His Gaming Hobbit” by Geoff Keighley:
“”I’m quite the videogame fan,” he [Elijah Wood] cheerfuly admits. “It’s part of my geeky obsession.” To offer proof, Wood proudly cited his recent play-time with games like Eternal Darkness and Halo. He even fesses up to taking his PlayStation to New Zealand for the 15-month LOTR shoot. Unfortunately, it got about as much use as a hobbit show rack: “I plugged [it] into the wall and it burned because I didn’t get a power transformer for it.”
A week ago, TheOneRing.net hosted a live IRC chat with developers from the programming houses Black Label Games and Surreal Software to talk about the current wave of Tolkien-based computer games – including the The Fellowship of the Ring for PS2 and PC. Here’s a transcript of the chat for everyone to enjoy! [More]
FYI for all Tolkien, tree and of course Ent fans, there is a beautiful new illlustrated book out by a British tree historian who is also a Tolkien fan. The title is “Remarkable Trees of the World” by Thomas Pakenham. There are a couple of references to Tolkien, Ents and even the dwarf Gimli. But I would not buy the book just for those acknowledgements, it is a beautiful homage to some rare and endangered giants. It is printed by Norton press. Thanks to Fatty for the news.