Chertsey, UK., January 13, 2006: Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that the highly anticipated PC game, The Lord of the RingsTM, The Battle for Middle-earthTM II will make its exclusive console debut when it ships in Summer 2006 on the Xbox 360TM. Players can now command epic Middle-earth battles presented in spectacular high-definition from the comfort of their very own couch. To add to the intensity of the experience, The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II for the Xbox 360 is the first game in The Lord of the RingsTM series that will be playable over Xbox LIVETM*. Players will be able to challenge friends online and engage in intense, action-packed real-time battles. [More]
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This Saturday (January 14th), Hall of Fire is going to the geek side. Instead of a topic chat, we’ll be hauling out our copies of the Fellowship of the Ring EE DVD, dusting them off and popping them into the DVD player. And after the usual confusion, at around 5.30pm EST we’ll all press play on our individual DVD players and proceed to cheer and jeer (or discuss and argue, if you like!) the finer points of the film. [More]
We got this from a mailing list: Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull will be talking about their work on Tolkien, especially “The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion”, at Water Street Books, 26 Water Street in Williamstown (north-west Massachusetts), 6:30 to 8:00 tonight, Jan 12. If you are in the area, make it a point to meet these great Tolkien scholars!
Dominic Monaghan was on ‘The Ellen Degeneres Show’ today (Jan 11th) talking about his hit show Lost. He also mentioned the speeding tickets incurred by the cast while in Hawaii, and some major Lost spoilers so beware! Also, please beware of a 90210 alum during the commercial clip that I accidentally left in…sorry! (I do make it up with clips of the ‘Billie Jean’ girl…wow) Take a look! (35.4MB MOV)[More]