Jennifer sends us the latest scans from ToyFare Magazine, they feature some very cool looking LOTR toys coming…
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Jennifer sends us the latest scans from ToyFare Magazine, they feature some very cool looking LOTR toys coming our way. Included is a ’25 Inch Electric Balrog’ (with a 36 inch wingspan!) and a very cool looking animated Gandalf maquette. Take a look!
May 23, 2007 – Chance Thomas seems to have a knack for getting himself attached to rather epic videogames, specifically in the arena of composing vast, interactive, and equally epic scores for such games. Thomas’ credits to date include X-Men: The Official Game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, among others. His latest project, however, brings him back to a realm he is quite familiar with: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. [More]
Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar proves that a product doesn’t have to be completely original to be very good. Whether it’s combat mechanics, character development, player-versus-player clashes, crafting, quests or communication channels, chances are Turbine’s latest massively multiplayer online franchise will remind veteran gamers of another MMO product. The graphics engine, developed during the course of three games spread over seven years, was most recently used in Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach. [More]
We know this because a team led by one of the writers of this fascinating book, Australian archaeologist Mike Morwood, discovered the creature’s skeleton in 2003, in a cave on the remote island of Flores. Since then, bones belonging to at least eight more individuals have been found, ranging in age from 95,000 to 12,000 years old. Our own species has been alive for at least 100,000 years, in case you were wondering. These bones are such a conglomeration of the primitive and the modern, so tiny, and so recent, that many scientists thought they were a hoax. “If you told me an alien space craft had landed in a field in Flores I would have been less surprised,” said experienced paleoanthropologist Peter Brown, who studied the bones. [More]
Laurelin wrote in with this story detailing how Aragorn’s 22-year-old close companion and friend was saved by a surgery. Read all the details right here.
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar writes: Today we added a new Dev Diary about the new Evendim update coming soon! Matt “Scenario” Elliott gives you a sneak peek at the creation of LOTRO’s first content update: The Shores of Evendim! [More]
