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Rate Lord of the Rings Online dev expands

Original at CVG Online external link    7 hours ago

New studio fronted by ex-Hellgate man. Westwood, Mass.-based Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine has founded a new Redwood City, Calif. location. Click here to read the full article

Rate Massively week in Review

Original at Joystiq external link    9 hours ago

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By Joystiq Staff Mines of Moria, the first expansion for Lord of the Rings Online, has been given a release date of November 18th for both the NA and EU today. That means we're only about a month away from ten new levels, two new classes, legendary weapons, angry Balrogs and the under-mountain Dwarf kingdom o...

Rate The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria

Original at Galbadia X external link    14 hours ago

By Colin Temple Mines of Moria, the first expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, has been given a release date of November 18. The expansion will add Volume II to the game’s system of “Books”, taking the storyline to the end of the events in The ...

Rate Lord of the Rings Online @ TenTonHammer.com: LotRO Opening West ...

Original at VirginWorlds MMO external link    14 hours ago

In April 2007, Turbine launched The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ (LOTRO), the first and only MMORPG based on the books of JRR Tolkien, and has quickly established itself as an emerging leader. The Lord of the Rings ...

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Rate Ex-Flagship execs recruited for new Turbine studio

Original at Joystiq external link    15 hours ago

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By Jason Dobson Filed under: MMO, Business While Flagship's maiden voyage may have ended up as splintered wreckage at the bottom of the massively multiplayer ocean, a pair of its former crew have found safe harbor at fellow MMO studio, Turbine. The Lord of the Rings Online developer announced that forme...

Rate Turbine to Launch MMO Social Gaming Network By Year's End

Original at 1up.com external link    16 hours ago

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By Stephany Nunneley Jim Crowley, Turbine's president and CEO, revealed some interesting news last week at the Tokyo Game Show that should get Lord of the Rings Online players pretty excited. According to an interview with Eurogamer, The company plans on adding social a networking site to the their massivel...

Rate Turbine Opens New Studio

Original at DigitalBattle external link    17 hours ago

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By Rajiv Ashrafi “The new studio will be a vital part of Turbine’s corporate vision as it brings new titles to market, expands the platforms it supports and introduces new technologies to expand and grow the communities that are the foundation of online games," reads a press release from Turbine. Related...

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Rate Turbine expands with West Coast office

Original at Massively external link    18 hours ago

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By Shawn Schuster Filed under: Fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO industry, News itemsNeed more proof that Turbine is becoming a behemoth game studio? They've just announced the opening of their newest West Coast studio in Redwood City, CA. This studio is not a relocation...

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Original at Pajamas Media external link    18 hours ago

ILYA SOMIN: "I served with Gandalf in numerous D&D campaigns; I knew Gandalf from reading the Lord of the Rings umpteen times; Gandalf was a friend of mine. And John McCain is no Gandalf." Among other things, not nearly enough hair.

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Original at Instapundit.com (v.2) external link    18 hours ago

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ILYA SOMIN: "I served with Gandalf in numerous D&D campaigns; I knew Gandalf from reading the Lord of the Rings umpteen times; Gandalf was a friend of mine. And John McCain is no Gandalf." Among other things, not nearly enough hair.

Rate Lord of the Rings Online Dev Gets New Studio, Former Flagship Staff

Original at Shacknews external link    18 hours ago

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine has opened a new west coast studio in Redwood City, CA, to support the expansion of platforms the company supports. Along the way, the studio announced it picked up a few noteworthy recruits from the defunct Flagship Studios, developer of Hellga...

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Rate Flagship alums opening Turbine West

Original at GameSpot external link    19 hours ago

Hellgate: London castaways join crew of Lord of the Rings Online developer's new California studio.

Rate Lord of the Rings Online Dev Expands West

Original at Edge Online external link    Mon, Oct 13

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By Kris Graft Westwood, Mass.-based Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine has founded a new Redwood City, Calif. location, the company said Monday. Turbine CEO Jim Crowley said the new studio will house staff that will help usher in the "new generation of cross platform MMOs."

Rate Flagship Vets Heading Turbine's New West Coast Studio

Original at GamasutraNews (Feedburner) external link    Mon, Oct 13

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MMO developer Turbine (Dungeons & Dragons Online, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar) opened a new studio in Redwood City, CA, an expansion meant to complement its East Coast operations in Westwood, MA, where the company is based. Turbine also announced the appointment...

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Rate Hero's guide to the Flaming Deeps of Moria

Original at Massively external link    Fri, Oct 10

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By Shawn Schuster With the recent redesign of Lord of the Rings Online's main website in anticipation of the upcoming Mines of Moria expansion, we get treated to more than just a pretty new blue theme. We get Moria pre-order information, The Treasures of Moria contest and an expansion to the Hero's Guides st...

Rate Turbine dev chat transcript gives more info on Moria

Original at Massively external link    Thu, Oct 9

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By Shawn Schuster It's been quite a long time since we've reported on a House of Commons dev chat with Lord of the Rings Online's Turbine and Codemasters devs, so this latest one should come as a special treat. In it, we get word of a few new features for the first expansion, Mines of Moria, which was just announc...

Rate Life after 50: Progressing your Burglar, Hunter and Lore-master in Moria

Original at Massively external link    Wed, Oct 8

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By Shawn Schuster Believe it or not, there's a lot more to Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria than just the Rune-keeper and the Warden. Chances are, if you already have a favorite class that you've leveled to 50, you're going to be more interested in getting that character through the mines and onto 60. Tur...

Rate Review: Re-Release of the BBC The Lord of the Rings

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Tue, Oct 7

By greendragon The Lord of the Rings - BBC As the world of Tolkien fandom eagerly prepares for the coming of The Hobbit movie(s), the BBC is helping us to fill in our time by re-releasing its fabulous radio dramatization of The Lord of the Rings. Now on Sale - The Lord of the Rings, The Complete Trilogy.  12CDs,...

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Rate The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

Original at New MMO external link    Tue, Sep 30

By The Mamba King(noreply@blogger.com) Experience Classic Tolkien: Meet famous characters like Gandalf and the Fellowship. Explore legendary locations like the Prancing Pony and Rivendell! Battle deadly enemies, including Nazgûl, Trolls, and Uruk-Hai! Defeat the Shadows of Angmar: Join with the Fellowship and fight ag...

Rate LOTRO: Welcome Back with Bonus XP Weekend - Ten Ton Hammer

Original at Ten Ton Hammer Headlines external link    Mon, Sep 29

By Medeor The Lord of the Rings Online is offering the latest round of ways to get your character set up for their upcoming expansion, The Mines of Moria. In addition to allowing previous customers back into the game for the weekend, Turbine is upping the XP nicely. Per the email sent out today:

Rate Freadom: Banned Books Week 2008Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at blogher.com external link    Sat, Sep 27

By sassymonkey To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Of Mice and Men, James and the Giant Peach, Blubber, The Bermudez Triangle, The Golden Compass - what do these books have in common? They've all be challenged and in some instances banned. September 27-October 4 200...

Rate "one small garden of a free gardener"

Original at eldritchhobbit (Livejournal) external link    Sun, Sep 21

Happy birthday to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins! Today is the anniversary of the Long-Expected Party celebrating Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday and Frodo's coming of age in The Lord of the Rings. My thoughts are with the Lómelindi Smial of the Tolkien Society and everyone else who will be cel...

Rate Opinion: Books That Last – The Lord of the Rings Model

Original at rebeccaluellamiller (WordPress) external link    Sat, Sep 20

By Rebecca LuElla Miller So on to The Lord of the Rings. What made those books so successful? Here are some lines from reviews posted at Barnes and Noble: Boston Herald A masterful story — an epic in its own way — with elements of high adventure, suspense, mystery, poetry and fantasy..

Rate AGDC 2008: id Software Talks Rage, Game Narrative

Original at IGN external link    Tue, Sep 16

 CA - To explain, he set up a comparison between Doom and The Lord of the Rings. "If you take [The Lord of the Rings] and distill it down to its really simple ...

Rate MMOGology: Why bother with story?

Original at Massively external link    Sun, Sep 14

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By Marc Nottke I played Oblivion a lot when it originally came out, but because my old rig struggled with it, I never played more than about a quarter of the way through the game. I decided to start over from scratch and as I progressed I remembered why I love single player RPGs: the story. A great story provide...

Year 2008

 

Rate Tolkien Flashback August 23rd-30th

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Sun, Aug 31

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By Diedye HarperCollins archive) 1968 August 28 - William “Billy” Boyd, who played Pippin in Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, is born on this day in Glasgow, Scotland. 1999 August 25 - The official poster makes its first appearance on the film trilogy’s official site…

Rate Tolkien Flashback August 17th-23rd

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Mon, Aug 25

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By Diedye 1947 August 20 – Famed British fantasy artist Alan Lee, who also worked as a conceptual designer on Peter Jackson’s LOTR, is born on this day. 1948 August 20 – Australian actor John Noble, who played Denethor in Peter Jackson’s LOTR movie trilogy, is born on this day.

Rate Closing The Book On LotRO Volume One

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Jul 23    2 related articles

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By Mike Fahey “The Lord of the Rings Online is one of the only MMOs to successfully integrate story into game play,” said Jeffrey Steefel, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online. “With Book 14 we continue to create new ways for players to experience the epic story in Middle-earth from the dram...

Rate Lord of the Rings Online new player guide wrapup

Original at Massively external link    Tue, Jul 22

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By Shawn Schuster Filed under: At a glance, Fantasy, Lord of the Rings OnlineWe've created a nice range of guides for Lord of the Rings Online so far, from the very basics to some rather intermediate. While these guides will continue to get more advanced, we wanted to take this opportunity to catch readers up...

Rate As Hellboy 2 Arrives, Del Toro Has Hobbit HeadacheVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Wired News external link    Fri, Jul 11

By John Scott Lewinski Hellboy II Online Game Hints at Prize With Hellboy 2: The Golden Army now in theaters, attention will turn to how its director, Guillermo del Toro, will handle the adaptation of his next project, the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit. Now that all of the...

Rate Tin Foil Game Review - The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II

Original at ajmarra (WordPress) external link    Mon, Jun 23

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By ajmarra The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II had a lot going for it, but overpowered military units, unbalanced difficulty levels, and a serious identity crisis left the game feeling average, boring, and not so Lord of the Rings-ish. If you're a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, you might w...

Rate Opinion: LotRO Class Tips Guide

Original at Ten Ton Hammer Headlines external link    Tue, Jun 10

By Morvelaira This lovely guide to the classes in Lord of the Rings Online is mainly aimed at selecting a class and less on how to play one. It also offers handy information on how much of the population plays that class so you can figure out where you might be needed.

Rate Lord of the Rings Online: Review

Original at reviewmmo (Blogspot) external link    Tue, May 27

By RedFlame(noreply@blogger.com) Lord of the Rings Online has been in development..for almost 6 years publicly. It started as "Middle Earth Online" being produced by Vivendi Universal. However, after a few years, they decided (not sure of the reason) to pass the game onto a company called Turbine. Turbine had

Rate The LOTR disc-set

Original at jaiarjun (Blogspot) external link    Sun, May 18

By Jabberwock(noreply@blogger.com) I doubt I’ll be able to do all of this anytime soon, but for now I’ve watched the extended version of The Fellowship of the Ring as well as bits of The Return of the King, and the extra material has been quite good, especially the quieter scenes that punctuate the grand moments (this is somethi...

Rate LotRO Celebrates Year One - Lifetime Memberships Return

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, Apr 24

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By Mike Fahey WESTWOOD, MA - April 24, 2008 - Turbine, Inc. announced today a special promotion featuring limited time pricing offers and a series of in-game events to celebrate the first anniversary of The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ (LOTRO), the award-winning massively multiplay...

Rate The Fellowship Of The Ring: Lord Of The Rings (2001) Heather's Review

Original at motorcityreviews (WordPress) external link    Mon, Apr 7

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By Heather In the large world of Middle Earth where Man, Elf, and many other races all walk together, exists a small quiet place called, 'The Shire".  In the Shire lives a race of halflings called, "Hobbits".  Hobbits are a simple race that has gone unnoticed in the vastness of Middle Earth.  They spend...

Rate LotRO GDC Meeting: Book 12 Lands! [Network Editorials]

Original at Allakhazam.com News (full) external link    Sun, Feb 24

Allakhazam and I were very pleased to get a chance this morning to sit with Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer, Jeffrey Steefel. Lord of the Rings Online will reach its first anniversary this year, and the team has no comment on what kind of celebration we can expect, but they acknow...

Rate "Ringers: Lord of the Fans" Review!

Original at Tolkien Geek external link    Thu, Feb 21

By Gary Late last year, a small group of independent filmmakers put together a documentary tribute to the fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. The project, titled “Ringers: Lord of the Fans” was picked up by Sony Pictures and distributed on DVD. I happened to rent a copy through Netflix rec...

Rate Pandemic Working On New Lord Of The Rings Title [Lord Of The Rings]

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Feb 12

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By Luke Plunkett My aching sense of disappointment at the cancellation of EA's Lord of the Rings Oblivion clone The White Council still lingers. To be replaced soon, however, with a renewed sense of hope, even if it is - pardon the quote - a fool's hope: EA revealed in an analysts report today that they've set...

Rate The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Watch Movie Online

Original at Watch Videos Online external link    Fri, Jan 25

By Dev Hudson The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Watch the Full Movie Online. Plot Outline: While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship ...

Rate LotRO Book 12 patch notes land on the test server

Original at Massively external link    Mon, Jan 21

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By Dan O'Halloran Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Classes, Patches, Previews, Crafting, PvP, News items, Player Housing The long awaited Book 12 content patch has hit Roheryn, the Lord of the Ring's Online test server today. The lengthy patch notes are available on LotRO's official wiki,...

Rate Movie Review: The Golden Compass

Original at Blogcritics external link    Sun, Dec 16

By Brandon Valentine Considering The Lord of the Rings trilogy has been fully adapted, New Line has placed all of its eggs into one basket — Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Hoping that The Golden Compass picks up where Frodo...

Rate LOTRO Book 11: More Cowbell [Lord Of The Rings]

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, Oct 18

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By Mike Fahey Thursday, 18th October (2pm GMT) - Codemasters Online and Turbine, Inc. announced the details of the third free content update for subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™. Book 11: Defenders of Eriador continues the epic story of The Lord of the Rings Online adding...

Rate Opinion: EQ2 vs. LotRO

Original at Tobold's MMORPG external link    Mon, Aug 13

By Tobold@GMail.com Lord of the Rings Online is the more accessible game of the two. I would also say it has the prettier graphics, but beauty being in the eye of the beholder I'm sure of getting some comments disagreeing with that statement. LotRO's ultimate strength is it's Tolkien license. LotRO does an excell...

Rate Musical adaptation of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" gets mixed reviews in London

Original at Asbury Park Press external link    Wed, Jun 20

The Lord of the Rings," the most expensive production in West End history, opened to a standing ovation from its audience, and mixed reviews from the critics, with some praising it as brilliant and a wonder, and others calling it "a thumping great flop" and corny. The stage adaptation of J.R....

Rate Lord Of The Dance: LOTRO Shores of Evendim Detailed

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Jun 5

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As the Fellowship prepares to leave Rivendell, Aragorn must re-forge Narsil, the Sword of Elendil. Gandalf has asked for help in Aragorn's search of the lands of Evendim for an ancient jewel that once belonged in the sword's hilt. This powerful relic must be recovered before the Dark Lord S...

Rate PC Game Review: Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

Original at Blogcritics external link    Wed, May 16

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By Kaonashi Turbine's long awaited The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar (LOTRO) was released on April 24, much to the delight of Tolkien and MMORPG fans alike. For $14.99 a month, anyone can assist Frodo, Gandalf, and the rest of the Fellowship in preventing Sauron and his armies from enslaving the F...

Rate LOTRO Tops PC Sales in USA and Europe

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, May 10

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By Mike Fahey Following the most successful North American pre-order program in Midway's history, The Lord of the Rings Online is off to a great start," said Steve Allison, chief marketing officer, Midway. "As the positive reports and reviews continue to come in, gamers are settling into the game and...

Rate LOTR Online Early Impressions

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Feb 19

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By Brian Crecente Having said that, Lord of the Rings Online: Shadow of Angmar is quite palatable. I'm sure tons of people are going to pick it up and say it's World of Warcraft or Guild Wars with a Lord of the Rings flavor, but you could say WoW didn't do much in the way of innovation either.

Year 2006

 

Rate Battle For Middle-Earth II, Rise of the Witch-King Officially Announced [Battle For Middle-earth 2]

Original at Kotaku external link    Fri, Jul 28

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By Kotaku The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II, The Rise of the Witch-king requires The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II in order to play and will be available Winter 2006 for the PC. The game is not yet rated by PEGI or USK.


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