A darkness is descending upon Middle-earth as NetEase Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment prepare to launch The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War next week, and to whet our appetite a new cinematic trailer has been released for the mobile strategy game which is based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic book trilogy and the […]
The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War to bring Middle-earth to mobile in September
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetEase Games have announced that fans will soon be able to venture to Middle-earth and take part in the War of the Ring on their mobile devices with the release of The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War, a new strategy game based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic fantasy and […]
Middle-earth gets the anime movie treatment with New Line’s Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Tolkien fans can prepare themselves for another trip into Middle-earth history as Deadline reports New Line Cinema and Warner Animation is developing an anime feature film titled The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. The film will be directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) […]
The Lord of the Rings – Gollum gets a first teaser trailer
Daedalic Entertainment has released the first trailer for its upcoming action adventure game The Lord of the Rings – Gollum, which serves as a prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic fantasy trilogy and follows the former Sméagol on his journey to Mordor in search of Bilbo Baggins, the thief who stole his “precious” during The Hobbit. […]
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV series targeting 20-episode first season, must be canonical to Tolkien
Amazon Studios recently announced the behind-the-scenes creative team tasked with bringing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth to life for the hugely-ambitious The Lord of the Rings series, which included Middle and Old English literature professor Tom Shippey as “Tolkien Scholar”. During an interview with Deutsche Tolkien (via CinemaBlend), Shippey revealed that Amazon is targeting a 20-episode first […]
Amazon developing The Lord of the Rings free-to-play MMORPG
Not content with producing a hugely ambitious, billion dollar-budgeted TV series based upon The Lord of the Rings, Amazon has now announced that it is also developing a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) set in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. The as-yet-untitled game will be free-to-play on PCs and consoles and promises to […]
Exclusive Interview – Tolkien director Dome Karukoski on his English language debut and the Tolkien family response
Tom Beasley sits down with Finnish director Dome Karukoski to chat about his new biopic Tolkien, in which Nicholas Hoult plays the iconic fantasy author… The man behind The Lord of the Rings is finally getting the biopic treatment. With Skins star and current X-Man Nicholas Hoult in the lead role, Tolkien examines the friendships […]
The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien does not endorse Tolkien biopic starring Nicholas Hoult
This coming Friday sees the release of Tolkien, a biopic exploring the early years of legendary fantasy J.R.R. Tolkien and starring Nicholas Hoult in the title role as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings creator. Ahead of the movie’s arrival, the Tolkien Estate has released a statement to make it clear that the […]
New Lord of the Rings game in development starring Gollum
German developer Daedalic Entertainment have announced its upcoming title, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a narrative focused adventure game that will center around the dual personality hobbit. Releasing in 2021, the game will focus on the character after he has acquired the One Ring but before the events of The Lord of the Rings. […]
J.R.R. Tolkien biopic Tolkien set for release in May
Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that it is set to release Tolkien, the upcoming biopic of The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien starring Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) on May 3rd 2019. The film explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of […]