We at TORn, and on behalf of EA Games, would like to thank all the writers who entered this writing contest. We had entries from all over the world who eagerly put words to their thoughts and imaginations and sent us some outstanding entries. It was the sheer quantity and quality of these entries that caused us to delay announcing the winners, but we are now ready to do so. And don’t forget to check out EA Games latest venture into the world of the Lord of the Rings – The Battle for Middle-earth II, in stores now! Winners will be contacted via email in the next few days. [Winners] [Battle for Middle-earth II]
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Due to the overwhelming number of quality entries into our EA Games and TORn writing contest, we are going to delay the announcement of our winners until Tuesday, April 11th 2006. We apologize for this delay, but to be fair to all contestants we feel the extra time will help with the judging process. [Click Here]
Ramen, Community Relations Specialist for The Lord of the Rings Online writes: On Tuesday, our Screenshot Galleries were updated with the two new shots featured in our latest round of Desktop Calendar Wallpapers. [More]
The POI series continues in this week’s Thursday update with the great halls of Thorin Oakenshield! Read about their appearance in The Lord of the Rings Online, and take a look at the concept art. [More]
I will be heading to New Zealand next month for a 10-day vacation in and around Wellington. Ubisoft, makers of “Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie” headed a contest a while back where the winners receive an all-expense paid trip to Wellington to visit the WETA studios, and I’ll be escorting them!
My journey begins on April 6th and I arrive on the 8th (the 7th will magically disappear from my calendar thanks to the wonder of crossing a ton of time zones), I have a few things already planned, my wife and I want to take some city and LOTR location tours, and we plan on seeing some friends I have made over the years while working on Lord of the Rings, King Kong and Narnia websites. Of course I also want to do some lounging about in the pre-fall goodness that is Wellywood. I will be shooting some video to be featured on the site, so keep an eye out for those!
I plan on having a ton of photos and goodies to show you from my trip, and if you know of any cool places to visit in the area, drop me a line!
Ramen, Community Relations Specialist for The Lord of the Rings Online writes: We’re in the midst of another action-packed week on the LOTRO community site! Tuesday saw the arrival of our new High-res Screenshot Gallery, full of beautiful desktop-worthy versions of our LOTRO screenshots. [More]
Our traditional Thursday update this week is a nice, meaty Developer Diary from Systems Designer Heather Sinclair talking about the playable classes for LOTRO and the process behind their creation. Hot off the press! [More]
Ostadan writes: Fantasy Flight Games’ page of ‘rants’ has two items of interest to Tolkien fans; both are expansions of existing games. Lord of the Rings: Battlefields: “In August, Reiner Knizia gives us a new expansion for the classic Lord of the Rings board game. Each of the boards from the main game has a corresponding battlefield, and players maneuver heroes and villains on these battlefields to improve their position in the fully integrated main game. We’ll have more information from Reiner on this expansion at the end of this month, so stay tuned!” [More]