Middle-earth [formerly LotR] in New Media

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Fantasy alternative immersive life simulations. FAILS. ;)
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Hm, no, don't think that's gonna work. :P
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How about:

Delightful Immersive Sensory Alternative Synaptic Temporary Engaging Revolutionary Simulators
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Interviews for Shadow of Mordor.

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While I am certainly going to purchase “Shadow of Mordor”, the overall premise sounds pretty strange and nonsensical. Nevertheless, after having seen some of the interviews with the director of design and the lead writer of the game I am quite intrigued by the game. The lead writer is Christian Cantamessa, who also was one of the writers for “Red Dead Redemption”. And that game surely is one of the best Westerns of the last decade.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... ordor.aspx
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Top Trumps

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My kids love these...

Desolation of Smaug Top Trumps

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A selection of the cards have been posted on Flickr and some of the stats make for interesting reading... :?

Shame they didn't issue a set for AUJ, as far as I'm aware....same thing happened with HP - they only started issuing sets with the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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I have the LotR Trilogy set of Top Trumps. Still in the packaging...

I wonder about myself sometimes!
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Ours are well thumbed!

More exciting news for the gamers amongst us:

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According to the ad on the back of the instruction booklets of the 2014 Hobbit sets, the game will be released sometime in 2014 on all the major platforms including the Xbox 360, Xbox One, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and PC.

http://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-hobbit- ... -revealed/
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That is awesome! I still have fun playing the LEGO LotR, and I'm very excited for this one!
Really like Thorin's representation, btw.
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Latest news is that it will cover the plots of the first two movies and there will be a followup game for the third movie. Much the same as they did with the Harry Potter games.
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Smaug's voice wrote:That is awesome! I still have fun playing the LEGO LotR, and I'm very excited for this one!
Really like Thorin's representation, btw.
Thorin looks like Bob Vila.
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Announcement Trailer for the Lego The Hobbit videogame!

http://uk.ign.com/videos/2013/12/16/leg ... nt-trailer

Look out for what Bilbo loses instead of his brass buttons! :rofl:
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Is it bad that I would watch a whole movie done in that style?

And I see the toilet-throne finally gets its moment in the sun! :D (figuratively, of course).
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Anyone want to buy me a present?

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9 chairs, presumably - or is the 10th a carver for his Lordship?

Very elegant...I wonder if there's room for it in sf's basement? He's fond of the Barad-dûr theme! ;)
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Not sure I could eat dinner under the Ring. As a poker table, though, it would rock. One full house to fold them all...
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Talking of poker...


Valar/Maiar playing cards!
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I was expecting to see a picture or video of Manwë, Varda, Ulmo, Olórin, Aulë, Melian, Sauron, etc. sitting around a table playing poker. ;)
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Now I'm envisioning the poker-playing dog painting only with Ainur. :rofl:
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What's Curunir the Not-so-White doing in there?
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