It has a lot of awards already, a record number of Oscars in fact, but Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has won Yahoo!’s “Ultimate Best Picture” prize as voted on by the people. While it isn’t the most prestigious award, it does demonstrate that J.R.R. Tolkien and the movies inspired by his works do indeed remain very popular and it beat out the grand Godfather to earn the title. Read the story over at Yahoo!.
Day: February 19, 2009
A non-profit group dedicated to the advancement of audio in games has nominated LOTRO: Mines of Moria for a couple of music awards including game Music Of The Year. You can read more about it right here as well as listen to excerpts. The track Khazad Dum is up for best coral song as well. The full list of nominations can be found here.