Ostadan writes: Fantasy Flight Games’ page of ‘rants’ has two items of interest to Tolkien fans; both are expansions of existing games. War of the Ring: Battles of the Third Age: “Battles of the Third Age is also both a companion game and an expansion for the original. The tactical companion game allows you to recreate the battles of Gondor and Rohan on an all new double-sided game board. [More]
Category: Merchandise
Meghan, Online Community Manager for The Lord of the Rings Online writes: Last Friday we announced our partnership with Codemasters as our European publisher and distributor. Yesterday, we posted concept art for Trestlebridge, an area the LOTRO team created specifically for the game. This is the first piece we’ve shown by concept artist Todd Rueping, who has been working on concepting the environments in the game. [More]
Anthony and Jessica of the North East Tolkien Society write: The proceedings from the 2004 Marquette University LOTR Conference have now been published. New research by twenty scholars of J.R.R. Tolkien is now available from the Marquette University Press. The articles were originally presented at the October 2004 conference, “The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder,” organized by the Marquette Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives. The international conference celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Tolkien’s masterpiece, as well as the opening of Marquette’s new John P. Raynor, S.J., Library. More information and ordering is found here. [More]
Ramen, Online Community Specialist for The Lord of the Rings Online writes: I’m the newest member of the LOTRO Community Relations team. If you haven’t already, you can check out my introduction from last week on the official forums here. I’m looking forward to getting to know our fan-site folks, and thought that sending out this week’s Thursday update email would be a nice little ice-breaker (I come bearing gifts!). [More]
Here is your chance to win an Xbox 360 bundle, a copy of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II’, and other great prizes in TheOneRing.net and EA Games ‘Northern Kingdom Writing Contest!’ Put your creative hats on and write your own short story about the Dunedain and the struggles of the Northern Kingdom. TheOneRing.net staff will review the entries and winners will be announced April 7th 2006. Click for the details! [Giveaway]
It is March 2nd 2006 – what are you doing today? Run to your local store and snag a copy of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-eath II’ today! [Official Website]