Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth tries to wrest Middle-earth back to its source: J. R. R. Tolkien's writing-desk.
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Interactive Entertainment and Monolith have officially announced Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, with a new cinematic trailer.
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We have more middle earth experts than Middle East experts.
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But what part of Middle Earth would they shop in?
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The newest TV installment from Middle Earth is headed to .
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Orsinia does not exist, any more than Middle Earth exists.
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The Morgan Library's Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, originating at Oxford's Bodleian Library, tries to wrest Middle-earth back from the movies, toymakers, and game marketers to its source: J. R. R. Tolkien's writing-desk.
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Both Middle-earth and Star Wars have TV series in development.
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"There's no reason this would look like Middle Earth," Gamble says.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War is so good that it's terrible.
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It is the real Middle-earth, a fantasy come to life.
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The Nemesis System was arguably Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's best quality.
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Even Middle-earth itself is a reminder of a more glorious past.
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He gives the impression of a child apprentice in Tolkien's Middle-earth.
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In general, Krynn has the vibe of a post-apocalyptic Middle Earth.
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Middle-Earth: Shadow of War A star was born at this year's E3.
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For me, on a par with Tolkien's Middle-Earth, is [James] Joyce's Dublin.
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This t-shirt is as metal as Middle Earth gets outside of Mordor.
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This dog's natural beard really lends itself to that Middle-Earth wizard look.
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Just Dance 2018 See Details LoTR fans, it's time to revisit Middle-Earth.
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Anyone who's been longing for a return to Middle-earth is in luck.
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All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War launches October 10th on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Case in point: Beren and Lúthien, one of Tolkien's oldest tales from Middle-earth.
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"Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor" takes place in the Lord of the Rings universe.
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Becoming a citizen might be the closest thing to living in Middle-earth itself.
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There is more to Middle-earth, Tolkien implies, than any single tale could convey.
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Whatever the artist's intention, this level of meaning casts a shadow across Middle Earth.
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They will still take place in Middle Earth — in fact, nerdy fans like us recall that author J.R.R. Tolkien has a treasure trove of writings that take place within the universe known as Eä, of which Middle Earth is one of several worlds.
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He makes a Middle Earth fantasy analogy, and Axe is way too cool for this.
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If you haven't heard of the Isle of Skye, imagine Middle Earth meets Jurassic Park.
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But if Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was any indication, it'll be fun to try!
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The new Middle-earth game isn't Amazon's only "Lord of the Rings" title coming out.
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Later he would also edit Unfinished Tales and the twelve-volume History of Middle Earth.
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Though both are set in Middle-earth, the game and show apparently won't be related.
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This is the force animating Sauron, the sorcerer-warlord and great enemy of Middle-earth.
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Did objectivism open the same door for its fans that Middle-earth opened for me?
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"I don't want to make him sound delusional, like he thought Middle-earth was a real place, but he did believe that Middle-earth, in and of itself, was a real place," John T. McQuillen, the curator of the Morgan's iteration of the exhibition, said.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War won't be ready in time for its originally announced August release.
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The time has come, friends, to re-enter the magical realm of Middle-earth once again.
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The role-playing features call to mind everything from Diablo to Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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By most accounts, both Forza Motorsport 22010 and Middle-earth: Shadow of War are good games.
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The magical realm of Middle-earth lives on through a new Tolkien tale: Beren and Lúthien.
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As big Tolkien fans and scholars, how do you interpret the political landscape of Middle Earth?
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And Martin Freeman brings humanity to Middle-earth in the second film of the "Hobbit" trilogy.
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Remember that time the dark lord Sauron created a ring to rule all of Middle-earth?
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The show will explore new storylines that take place in the Second Age of Middle Earth.
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And if you're a billionaire prepper, Middle Earth apparently looks like a pretty good escape route. 1.
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Amazon's big Middle-earth-set show based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is slowly moving forward.
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The Bodleian Libraries acquired a map of Middle Earth annotated by JRR Tolkien and illustrator Pauline Baynes.
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Gollum's release will happen in the same year that Amazon's $1 billion Middle-earth series kicks off.
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Part of what makes J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books so great is not getting the references.
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Below, some of the sketches and paintings that show Middle-earth (and beyond!) as Tolkien himself envisioned it.
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CineFix begins a three-part journey through Middle-earth with J.R.R. Tolkien's classics and Peter Jackson's epic adaptations.
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Home Entertainment on Monday for paying YouTube creators to endorse the publisher's game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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How did J.R.R. Tolkien come up with Middle-earth and his stories of hobbits and fellowships and rings?
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Now, Christopher Tolkien has announced the release of a new standalone Middle-earth tale: The Fall of Gondolin.
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You might have heard rumors over the weekend, but now it's official: we're going back to Middle-earth.
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Part of that detail has been the creation of the richest linguistic universe since J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.
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The new book is described as "the first real story" of Middle-earth — a preface to The Silmarillion.
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Ryan Adams is on a journey, playing a few surprise shows in Middle Earth Australia and New Zealand.
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth continues at the Morgan Library & Museum (225 Madison Avenue, Manhattan) through May 12.
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Instead, Microsoft is banking on post-release 203K upgrades for Forza Motorsport 220 and Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
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The resulting Instagram post, which was posted to Dominic Monaghan's account, will bring you right back to Middle Earth.
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The Fall of Gondolin tells one of the earliest stories of Middle-earth, a classic tale of good vs.
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Middle-Earth: Shadow of War's microtransactions caused something of a backlash back when it was released in October 2017.
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Mawle played Benjen Stark in "Thrones," brother of Ned — so it seems the Starks are heading to Middle Earth.
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This includes a rare map of Middle Earth annotated by Tolkien that was acquired by the Bodleian in May 2016.
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Rather than trying to take over fortresses in Middle-earth, you're holding onto the ones you have from invading armies.
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I've been to Tamriel and Middle-Earth, to Nilfgaard and Lordran, and each is filled with its share of terrors.
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Downton Abbey and its residents were no more real than Middle-earth and, in the end, how little that mattered.
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"Lord of the Rings" wasn't concerned with how Aragon would rule Middle-earth, or what his tax policies would be.
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The story of "Middle-earth" really began decades earlier, when Tolkien — who had been posted, like most of his university friends, to the killing fields of the Great War — started inventing the history, geography, mythology, and languages of Middle-earth, an imaginary world populated with dragons, elves, goblins, walking trees, and even human beings.
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The One S Shadow of War bundles ship with Middle-earth: Shadow of War and a couple of Xbox subscription perks.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor will cost you just $4 as one of the highlighted deals during Steam's annual Summer Sale.
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Feel free to use this video as the Hobbit portion of your Middle Earth marathon to save yourself a full day.
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Last November, Amazon announced that it had acquired the rights to produce a multiseason show set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
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He started inventing languages in his teens, and said he created Middle Earth to help this, not the other way round.
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It's not all tragic, though: Tolkien's own courtship and eventual marriage to Edith Bratt formed a major foundation for Middle-earth.
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As for the weird, in traditional fantasy novels magical worlds like Middle Earth or Narnia operate according to a relatable realism.
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Beren and Lúthien are ancestors of Arwen and Aragorn, living thousands of years earlier, in the First Age of Middle Earth.
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Visitors had basically walked into a home furniture store for a Hobbit world in Middle-earth — though nothing was for sale.
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"Middle Earth," Henri Cole Henri Cole's poems pair surfaces of classical, sometimes cool, elegance of expression with emotion of extraordinary heat.
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" He also compiled and edited much of his father's work, including "The Silmarillion" and the collection "The History of Middle-earth.
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth Through May 12 at the Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Manhattan; 212-685-0008, themorgan.org.
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The story of Beren and Lúthien is particularly important to Middle-Earth The story of Beren and Lúthien is particularly important to Tolkien's Middle-Earth saga: it was a major union between humans and elves, which would ultimately form the basis for the union of Aragorn and Arwen, two major figures in The Lord of the Rings.
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The game — a follow-up to 2014's exceptionally well-received Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor — will now be out on Oct.
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And, of course, no list would be complete without mentioning the country's role as Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings.
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Interactive Entertainment, and Troy Baker (the voice of Talion) for an inside look and live demonstration of Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
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When Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell wrote recently that "Earthsea is a superior creation to Middle-earth," I found myself nodding vigorously.
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Magic cake might sound like something you can only eat in Middle Earth or whilst joining Mr. Tumnus for tea in Narnia.
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What should you do if you want to become Aragorn, a Ranger of Middle Earth, and heir to the throne of Gondor?
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"The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" were the only Middle Earth-based stories to be published while Tolkien was alive.
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Looking for Middle-earth Our first office here was stark, with a black ceiling and black concrete walls interspersed with white pillars.
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If we were going to make a Lord of the Rings joke here, we could say they were missing Middle Earth orbit.
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Games like Rocket League, Fortnite, and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War have voluntarily removed loot boxes in the wake of that backlash.
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THURSDAY • J.R.R. Tolkien's new book, "The Fall of Gondolin," is the final installment of his "Lost Tales" Middle-Earth trilogy, publishes Thursday.
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"Lord of the Rings" fans often go to great lengths to experience a taste of what life was like in Middle Earth.
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth provides a thorough picture of Tolkien as a remarkably finical creator, a detail-oriented chap — a craftsman.
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An untold number of people have visited the country just so they could stand in the closest place we have to Middle Earth.
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England. That may not seem as far-flung as Middle Earth, but the cast and crew have already filmed on location in Paris.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to be released this fall, offered an opportunity for Monolith Productions to fill in those blanks.
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In fact, his wish that England have a mythology of its own is generally thought to be the actual genesis of Middle Earth.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the follow-up to 2014's Shadow of Mordor, is in many ways a prototypical video game sequel.
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Interactive Entertainment revealed Middle-earth: Shadow of War on Monday with a trailer, a release date, and a promise of more to come.
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On the 10th comes Middle-earth: Shadow of War, which we now know has wisecracking Cockney orcs in it—what's not to love?
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In May 2017, HarperCollins will publish Beren and Lúthien on the 10th anniversary of the last Middle-earth title, The Children of Húrin.
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Our back pages In this week's issue, Lauren Christensen, an editor at the Book Review, revisits the languages of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
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This was a remarkable feat of reverse engineering, not quite like any of his other etymological exploits amongst the tongues of Middle-earth.
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That means it comes before the events of Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring, which happens in the Third Age of Middle Earth.
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After a visit you, too, may find yourself believing in Middle-earth and the hobbits, elves, dwarves, orcs and wizards that live there.
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But Mr. Lucas's universe just doesn't have the depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth; it was only ever meant to be sketched, not charted.
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There I stared at the relics of Middle-earth: original manuscripts, watercolors, a roughed-out map of Gondor in the author's own hand.
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This is evident in Pro-optimized games like Battlefield 1, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Infamous: Second Son.
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This time, he had The Big Sick's Kumail Nanjiani as co-pilot while they explored the upcoming Xbox game Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
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This Middle Earth experience lets you sleep in a sphere strung up 15 feet high, supported by three Polysteel ropes tethered to surrounding trees.
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If you've held off on games like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Mafia III, or Rocket League, now is the time to grab them.
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You always begin as a lowly adventurer in a Tolkienesque fantasy world gone sour (picture Middle Earth, except the bad guys won the war).
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Heartthrob Legolas, or Orlando Bloom to those of us not from Middle Earth, has just rescued a dog from the streets of Shanghai, China.
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"Beren and Luthien", edited by Tolkien's son Christopher Tolkien, presents two characters - a man and an elf - taken from Tolkien's fictional world, Middle Earth.
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They may render gorgeous locations or fantastic planets, but the environments never feel real the way the Mos Eisley cantina or Middle-earth do.
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But, rather than transport me to a believable Middle Earth, this cinematographic choice left me feeling as if I was watching the local news.
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Those lush green landscapes could only come from the place that also stood in for Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings movies.
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Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is (at least in theory) set in the same world as the rest of the Lord of the Rings saga.
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"There's no reason why Gandalf can't leave the shores of Middle Earth and come with me on future travels to other countries," Suhas assured us.
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Cameron Kunzelman: Hey Austin, Here we are, living on a world where they made Shadow of War, the sequel to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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We've got inspirational séances, office comedy set on Mars, and the original graph paper cartography of Middle-earth to keep your ears awake and alert.
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As we learned on Monday, Amazon bought worldwide rights to Tolkein's Middle Earth — and what is the first place it announced it would take us?
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On the other hand, it was clear that the Middle Earth concept is an alternate Earth conception—all this doesn't happen on a fantasy planet.
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The original version of this idea used the theme pairs GREAT EAGLES / MIDDLE-EARTH, BASILISK / HOGWARTS, MOCK TURTLE / WONDERLAND, DIRE WOLF / WESTEROS, and EWOKS / ENDOR.
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Here, Elijah Wood, Peter Jackson and others from the "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" movie trilogies help passengers travel safely to Middle-earth.
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In these images you'll see scenes reminiscent of Middle-earth from the film version Lord Of The Rings, to the simple pleasures of its shores.
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I.C.E.'s Middle-earth Role Playing was one of the first really extensive licensed lines—it was in the '80s primarily—and they just did an amazing job putting out supplement after supplement—chunky 60- or 80-page supplements—that extensively detailed individual lands in Middle-earth, at a level that you would never see even in the very extensive Lord of the Rings books.
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The film will follow Tolkien's courtship with Edith Bratt, who would later become his wife, and the inspiration for one of his first Middle-earth stories.
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The intent is to show studios the depth of the world, comparing its potential to that of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth or George R.R. Martin's Westeros.
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Some games, like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, already include a built-in "photo mode" that makes the process of capturing the artsiest shot a cinch.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War's first story trailer dropped today, revealing a handful of amazing new items and characters to entice Lord of the Rings nerds.
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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor See Details Check out Best Buy's whole catalog of game deals to get the most out of the Black Friday weekend.
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Sara David, culture editor I spend all day feeling pulled by a magnetically grotesque other, like I'm tip-toeing around the Dead Marshes of Middle-earth.
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And as the 'Official Airline of Middle Earth,' it's only fitting that the fearsome dragon Smaug adorns the sides of some of Air New Zealand's planes.
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After a visit you, too, may find yourself believing in the reality of Middle-earth and the hobbits, elves, dwarves, orcs and wizards that live there.
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Developers just aren't producing the same type of epic sagas like Middle-Earth: Shadow of War or The Witcher 3 that are available on traditional gaming consoles.
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Related: Now You Can Explore a Fully 3D Fractal Universe with Oculus Rift This Middle-Earth Fractal Remix Rules Them All This Is Your Brain on Fractals
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Sound Garden Smith grew up on an island in Puget Sound that looks like Middle-earth, and her creative process has always been intimately entwined with nature.
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Back in November, word broke that New Line Cinema was putting together a film called Middle Earth, to be helmed by director James Strong (Broadchurch, Downton Abbey).
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Prediction: Newt Gingrich wearing a Ring of Power, forged by the elven-smiths of Eregion under the order of Sauron in the Second Age of Middle Earth.
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The actress turned 30 on Friday and was all smiles as she celebrated the occasion with a "Middle Earth"-themed birthday party attended by friends and family.
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Our first look of the long-awaited sequel to 2014's Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor appears to have leaked early thanks to a Target listing today.
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Unlike Tolkien's myriad Middle-earth calendars, the way time is mapped on Planetos is less clear—characters mention "weeks" and "months," but seasons last for variable lengths.
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Ian McKellen played a famed wizard from Middle-earth in the Lord of the Rings films, but he could have almost been Headmaster of Hogwarts as well.
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Amazon Age Amazon's taking us back to Middle Earth with a new "Lord of the Rings" TV series, so get ready for more hobbits, elves and dwarves.
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After his father's death, Christopher Tolkien began working on his father's manuscripts and helped publish "The Silmarillion," which chronicles the origins of Middle-earth and its people.
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This Washington state "hobbit hole" is built into the earth with a round doorway above ground, resembling a dwelling you'd find in author J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.
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Between the blighted ports of games like Command and Conquer: Red Alert and Battle for Middle Earth, there was a sizable void that no one dared to fill.
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However, iFly said it's also pursuing some more fantastical flight experiences (maybe we'll be soaring through space or over Middle Earth), and that prospect excites me even more.
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As part of the agreement, Kabam migrated titles such as "The Hobbit: Kingdoms of the Middle-Earth" and "Fast & Furious 21: The Game" to Alibaba's messaging app, Laiwang.
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BryndenBFish: I came back from deployment to Afghanistan in late 22017 and I'd heard about this new HBO show which was pitched as The Sopranos meets Middle-earth.
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This is the stuff of fantasy stories: Aragorn is the rightful ruler of Middle Earth, and The Lord of the Rings gets him from wilderness wanderer to king.
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J.R.R. Tokien's Middle-Earth in Lord of the Rings is the classic example, but George R.R. Martin aspires to Tolkien's world-building throne with Game of Thrones' Westeros.
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As he was creating Middle-earth, J.R.R. Tolkien often read passages of his work-in-progress to the Inklings, the amiable Oxford literary group that included C.S. Lewis.
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The series will film in New Zealand, the unofficial home of Middle Earth where Peter Jackson's acclaimed "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies were also filmed.
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Dr. Morwood proposed to his colleagues that they nickname the hominins of Flores hobbits, in honor of J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel about the little people of Middle Earth.
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And this week J.R.R. Tolkien, who died in 1973, lands at No. 6 with "Beren and Lúthien," about the Middle-earth romance between a human and an elf.
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If you've been to neither Hogwarts nor Middle Earth in prose form ... well, it's a bit like saying you've never seen Star Wars or listened to the Beatles.
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"The Silmarillion," an early cover page of which is on view at the Morgan, begins with a creation story for Middle-earth before diving into its religious cosmology.
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The level of backstory and information there is about each and every aspect of Martin's world is really only rivaled by Tolkien's Middle-earth and the Star Wars universe.
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The company also announced a pair of Middle-earth: Shadow of War Xbox One S bundles, one for a 500GB version of the console and a second 1TB version.
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There's also a new feature reminiscent of the "nemesis" system from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, in which mercenaries will hunt you down, unless you get to them first.
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Other blockbuster titles like Destiny 2 and Middle-earth: Shadow of War were subject to similar, if less vitriolic, controversies for their inclusion of loot boxes and various microtransactions.
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Air New Zealand has taken people to Middle Earth and done a Men In Black throwback in its safety videos, setting itself apart from other, boring pre-flight briefings.
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Middle Earth is described as following Tolkien's "early life and love affair with Edith Bratt," as well as his service to the British Army during the First World War.
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Although inspired by well known stories from Middle-earth, the results of battles at the event are not predetermined, and on several occasions the evil side has actually won.
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A new "The Lord of the Rings" game is coming to consoles and PC thanks to a new partnership between Amazon Game Studios, Middle-earth Enterprises, and Leyou Technologies.
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Middle-earth buffs will recognize Anduril as the enchanted blade that was Aragorn's go-to lethal weapon; a palantir is a magical crystal ball from the same Tolkien universe.
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I should also mention that we do not use just poems from Tolkien himself, but also from different, often unknown writers, which we bring into a Middle Earth surrounding.
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Having as far as he knew invented the word, Tolkien provided an imaginary etymology for hobbit, in order to fit the word into the linguistic landscape of Middle-earth.
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And the latter has a lot of modern takes on what the music of an imaginary middle Earth may have been like, inspired by British and Irish folk music.
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While I was reading that, I was personally reading another Tolkien-related book: Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth by film journalist Ian Nathan.
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The long-time home of author J.R.R Tolkien is on the market — and it's big enough to house Gandalf, Frodo, Bilbo Baggins, and pretty much everyone else in Middle Earth.
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What those movies get wrong (which Amazon Studios, who just bought the rights, might possibly get right) is that in Tolkien's books, Middle Earth was more important than the characters.
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Tolkien's prose is aided by his beautiful maps of Middle-earth, which comes with simplified, beautiful forests, mountains, and typography that has set the standard for fictional cartography ever since.
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When J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973, he left behind mountains of notes, poetry, and stories set within his larger Middle-earth fantasy world that he never got around to finishing.
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He had been writing small fragments of his fantasy world, and he began incorporating elements of his wartime experience and his love life into the larger fabric of Middle-earth.
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Game of Thrones, for instance, draws from the War of the Roses and J.R.R. Tolkein was said to have been influenced by World War I when he created Middle Earth.
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For those who've already read the books and seen the movies but are still hurting for more Middle Earth, Amazon is working on a "Lord of the Rings" TV series.
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So, as a nerdy Muslim kid growing up in Indiana, I imagined my grandfathers were like characters from Narnia or Middle-earth, Shariah-compliant wizards who dispensed wisdom and miracles.
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This humorous cartoon fantasy epic follows the three Bone brothers after being kicked out of Boneville — and end up in a land that looks more like Middle Earth than Loony Tunes.
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Apple recently put an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy into development, while Amazon is working on adaptations of Iain M Banks' Culture series, Ringworld, J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and others.
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T-shirts sporting the company's motto "Save the Shire" (referring to the home of the hobbits in Tolkien's Middle-earth) can be seen in coffee shops, at parks and on treadmills.
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The FTC's settlement announcement said that Kjellberg's video about the "Middle Earth" game failed to disclose prominently enough that it was sponsored by Warner Brothers, something the company should have required.
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While their earliest material hewed more closely to a traditional black metal template, the soaring, bombastic albums they're best remembered for are firmly ensconced within the verdant realm of Middle Earth.
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In response, Christopher produced the 12-volume "The History of Middle-earth" (1996), a compilation of drafts, fragments, rewrites, marginal notes and other writings culled from 70 boxes of unpublished material.
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While Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" films are the most famous visual representations of Middle-earth, Tolkien drew and painted many images of his world himself.
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Games such as Overwatch, Call of Duty: World War II, and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War come with a $60 price tag and a premium economy of optional loot boxes built in.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War has a new story trailer that focuses less on showing off gameplay and more on setting the stage for the new chapter in Talion and Celebrimbor's adventure.
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However, its name is a reference to the powerful crystal ball that helped Saruman spy on events across Middle-Earth, but that eventually corrupted him into an agent of the evil Sauron.
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While they're both medieval fantasy authors, Tolkien's Middle Earth couldn't more dissimilar than Martin's Westeros: Tolkien focused firmly on grand ideas of good versus evil, with clearly delineated lines on either side.
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Tolkien's Middle-earth is known for its size and rich history, which will give Amazon plenty of material to work with in expanding the world that Jackson realized in his two trilogies.
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But over the past few years, games like Dwarf Fortress, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, RimWorld, and Darkest Dungeon have been finding novel ways to more substantially integrate players into their worlds.
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Middle Earth is coming to TV. Amazon announced on Monday that it has retained the rights to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" for television for its Prime streaming service.
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Just think of it like the blade Sting from The Lord of the Rings in the presence of orcs... if the orcs were fortifying locations in your mouth instead of Middle-earth.
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Tangential as well, however fascinating, are the care with which he constructed the topography of Middle-earth or the assiduity with which he charted the family trees of the various Elvish languages.
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The Middle-earth series (Shadow of Mordor, Shadow of War) showcases a more somber side of the Lord of the Rings universe, exposing the cruelty of war and the dehumanization of adversaries.
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Home Entertainment for a marketing campaign that paid PewDiePie and other online influencers to promote the video game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor — but not coming clean about the arrangement with consumers.
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It reminded me of the opening of 2014's Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which used a quiet scene of romance to teach the player the game's systems before the carnage kicked off.
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Upon his return to England he resumed writing, laying down the foundations of what would become Middle-Earth — an epic story that includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
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Fans of "The Lord of the Rings" can visit Middle Earth in the form of Hobbiton, the movie set used to film scenes in the Shire for the "Lord of the Rings" movies.
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Maybe the reason Middle-earth: Shadow of War doesn't look quite right is that I don't actually want to play it, I just convinced myself that I should because it's new and expensive.
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The ORC has played a role in fantasy fiction for hundreds of years, but perhaps it is best known as the savage soldier and henchman of Middle-earth in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic novels.
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Christopher Tolkien is also credited with creating the widely acclaimed 1954 map of Middle-earth, the land in which the sprawling stories were set; a copy is now held by the British Library.
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But extensive film franchises have been around for awhile, and several older series, like the film adaptations from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books, have received more positive critical acclaim on average than Marvel's.
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Nicholas Hoult ("The Favourite") stars as J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the "Lord of the Rings" series, in this biopic focusing on his early years and how they shaped his vision of Middle-earth.
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At 153A, as long as the term "Middle-earth" rings a bell (or whispers "Tolkien"), it is a safe bet that you will be able to come up with LORD OF THE RINGS.
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"Tolkien's Middle-earth is one of the richest fictional worlds in history, and it gives our team of experienced MMO developers -- from the same studio developing 'New World' -- tremendous opportunity to play and create."
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Beren and Luthien by J.R.R. Tolkien Tolkien's estate has been steadily releasing new material from his papers, and the latest is one of the earliest stories in his Middle-earth series: Beren and Luthien.
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From the moment he appeared on screen I knew from the fluttering feeling in my 10-year-old tummy that I felt love at first sight for Frodo Baggins, future savior of Middle Earth.
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In many ways, the series is Groening's most ambitious to date, trading in the streets of Springfield and pneumatic tubes of New New York for a fantasy world somewhere between Westeros and Middle Earth.
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Penguin Random House and David Fickling; £20 IN HIS famous trilogy, "His Dark Materials", Philip Pullman created a detailed fantasy universe every bit as compelling as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth or C.S. Lewis's Narnia.
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Before arriving in Pittsburgh two years ago, though, Kessel spent six seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the epicenter of bad hockey takes the way Mordor was the epicenter for evil in Middle Earth.
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The new book attempts to distill the story of their relationship from the volumes of "The History of Middle-earth" where, as Christopher Tolkien remarks in the preface, it can be difficult to follow.
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The book arrives a decade after "The Children of Húrin," the last book about Middle-earth released by the author's estate, which topped the New York Times best-seller list despite its recycled contents.
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As the Verge noted, they've been making massive pushes towards developing content like adaptations of Ringworld, Snow Crash, Utopia, and Tales from the Loop, as well as a show set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth.
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In conjunction with its "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" exhibition, the University of Oxford has released a book of everything Tolkien — his original artwork, correspondences with friends and fans, family photos, early manuscripts, and more.
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The follow-up, titled Middle-earth: Shadow of War, appears to continue the story of Talion (and the wraith Celebrimbor that possesses him), as the duo continue to seek vengeance against the Dark Lord Sauron.
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Haroon Moghul: Pence's dishonesty is spiritually toxic, socially radioactive When the five wizards arrived in Middle Earth many years ago, the shipwright Cirdan gave his Ring of Power to Gandalf, not the leading wizard, Saruman.
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The Lord of the Rings tells the story of Frodo Baggins, a young Hobbit who is tasked with destroying an artifact called the One Ring in the hopes of saving the world of Middle-earth.
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Palantír in The Lord of the Rings series This is a classic crystal ball used to privately communicate with other Palantír orbs in Middle Earth, kind of like Snapchat with more corruption of the soul.
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The footprint of World War I lurks in the background of Tolkien's works, and Middle Earth will also likely make people take another look at The Lord of the Rings after reading or watching it.
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While attempting to translate the words "Russian Federation" from Ukrainian to Russian, one Google user noticed that the phrase translated instead to "Mordor," the fictional and treacherous province in Lord of the Rings' Middle Earth.
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"Mirror Mirror" actress Lily Collins plays Edith Bratt, whom Tolkien met when he moved into a boarding house and who would later become his wife and inspire elf Luthien in his fictional Middle-earth world.
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Assassin Creed's virtual turf war isn't anything new — games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor have similar systems — but in Syndicate, the gang warfare has a real historical precedent.
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In reviewing my Xbox One X, I've spent a lot of time wondering whether my Xbox One X was properly running Middle-earth: Shadow of War, a new action game about enslaving and killing orcs.
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The upcoming series will reportedly take place before the events of Fellowship of the Ring, but other than that, there's no word on what Middle Earth tales or Silmarillion subplots the series will focus on.
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As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth, and revise the Eurocentric and Christian tropes that Tolkien's particular worldview bequeathed.
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We'd like to imagine that in a parallel, more peaceful Middle Earth, Gimli would have had a sweet renaissance fair tent full of bespoke axes and shields, and Legolas would be modeling men's hair products.
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Tolkien received formal art training in school and drew throughout his life, and Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth tries hard to make a case for him as a significant — or at least interesting — visual artist.
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But what gets lost in Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth are the very elements of life, humor, joy, and tragedy that made The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings popular in the first place.
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This trailer teases a film that intersperses the real world with imagined shots of Middle Earth, which seem to blend in eerily well with the outbreak of World War I. The film comes out May 10th.
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Baker, having won awards for his work as Joel in The Last of Us and Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, is emerging as the preeminent male in video game voice overs and performance capture.
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There's the influence of European history in J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of Middle Earth, or the allusions to Nazism and genocide in Voldemort's pure-blood ideology, or the white colonialist narrative in Avatar, among others.
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The Valar retaliated by changing the shape of the entire flat realm into a round planet, kind of like the Earth, which had the consequence of sinking Númenor and sending Elendil, Aragorn's grandfather, to Middle-Earth.
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In "The Lord of the Rings," we meet Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, Hobbits of the Shire, on a fateful mission to destroy the last Ring of Power and save Middle-earth from enslavement and destruction.
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Additionally, "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" has an innovative nemesis system, meaning that if you ever encounter an enemy who later runs away, the next time you see each other, he'll remember you and want revenge.
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With a canopy of cypresses and pines towering over lumpy, moss-covered lava rocks from Mount Fuji, the forest has an ethereal beauty that evokes Tolkien's Middle-earth or the Forest of Endor in Star Wars.
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From a devious, melting cube straight out of Hellraiser, to alien planet-worthy landscapes, and even a Middle-Earth-inspired techno-sojourn, it's a look inside mathematical constructions as divisible as they are mutable, mobile, and magical.
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Experience how the award winning Nemesis System creates unique personal stories with every enemy and follower, and confront the full power of the Dark Lord Sauron and his Ringwraiths in this epic new story of Middle-earth.
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It is sometimes referred to as the Eye of God or the Eye of Sauron, depending on whether you think it looks like a benevolent cross-cultural deity or a rogue Maiar intent on destroying Middle Earth.
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There's a crustacean nation whose battle scene evokes the dwarves of Middle-earth facing the endless monsters of Mordor in Lord of the Rings, yet the film only doles out a few brief lines from their leader.
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And Middle Earth would tell a dramatic story in its own right: that of a man coming to terms with the losses he and his generation experienced during one of the most terrible episodes of human history.
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What makes the price tag sting even more is that despite the impressive packaging, there appears to be little new in the Middle Earth collection beyond a 100-page art book and some watercolor concept art prints.
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There was a lot of action in the Second Age, most of it only gleaned from references in The Lord of the Rings books and a couple of chapters from the Middle-Earth history book The Silmarillion.
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On Wednesday night, I watch James Harden, the Rockets' cool cat glider of a superstar guard, walk onto the court to practice, his black hoodie and that bushy black beard calling to mind a Middle-earth wizard.
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Though the tales of Middle-earth waxed and waned in popularity, they were all but cemented in popular culture in the 2000s, with film adaptations that garnered Academy Awards and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues.
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With its overhanging granite walls, moody light and silty water the color of sapphires (if the sapphires had somehow been electrified), the chamber bore traces of both the real-life Blue Lagoon and the fictional Middle-earth.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War will be released on August 22nd on Xbox One (and Project Scorpio), PlayStation 4 (and PlayStation 4 Pro), and PC (through both Steam and the Windows Store as an Xbox Play Anywhere title).
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Where most people would have left town, Richard Poulin opened Middle Earth in 1969 "as an F.U." to the local cops and proceeded to spend the next 50 years becoming the area's most effective environmental gadfly and campaigner.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War was a fun action game, a pretty good Orc dating sim, and the subject of some controversy at release because it included what some players saw as an aggressive post-release monetization scheme.
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First announced last year by Athlon Game Studios' Chinese parent company, Leyou Technologies, the game is set around the time of the events of the Lord of the Rings trilogy using intellectual property licensed from Middle-earth Enterprises.
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They haven't really let up since 2017 started, but if you were already behind on games, it's not about to get any easier, with both Middle-Earth: Shadow of War and The Evil Within 2 launching this week.
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This stems from Tolkien, who ends The Return of the King with the age of man beginning and those who possess anything like magic powers — including ring bearers like Frodo — departing from Middle-earth and into the west.
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Aragorn (in Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy), the dishiest king Middle-earth has known, was still flying high off the news that his movie "Captain Fantastic" won a surprise SAG Award nomination for best ensemble picture.
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Home Entertainment after the entertainment giant was charged with paying an undivulged number of YouTubers anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars to create promotional videos for the company's 2014 game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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The short film sees Talion — the main protagonist in the Middle-earth games — fighting his way at the head of an army of orcs, storming a fortress while fending off attacks from enemy warriors, drakes, and huge hulking trolls.
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Tolkien ends with the author, now a married professor with children, writing the iconic first line of The Hobbit, the first book he ever published about the world of Arda (upon which Middle-earth sits in the middle of).
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The world of Gilmore Girls (which is also, technically, the world of Pretty Little Liars) is arguably as well-loved and as lived-in as Westeros, Middle-earth, the Wizarding World, or any other fictional home away from home.
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In the end, the movie business is just that, a business, and more versions of the Middle Earth films will undoubtably be released in the future to try to capture Lord of the Rings fans attention (and their wallets).
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This epic adventure novel takes place in Tolkien's made-up world of Middle-earth and follows Frodo Baggins as he sets out to destroy the One Ring before the Dark Lord Sauron gets it and uses it for evil.
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Join Patrick, Danika, Rob, and Austin for a discussion of Nintendo, our interview with Reggie Fils-Aime and the company's treatment of fan work, Monster Hunter, Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite, Middle Earth: Shadow of War, and much, much more.
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Maybe we would get weird if we had to release a Summoning album every second year, but with all this long time in between, it is still an exciting process to build up new musical paintings from Middle Earth.
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"Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth," an exhibition of his artwork, letters, drafts and other material now on view at the Morgan Library & Museum, reminds visitors that the stories Tolkien wrote, however impressive, represent only a fraction of his efforts.
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Richard Ovenden, the head of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, where a previous version of "Maker of Middle-earth," organized by Catherine McIlwaine, appeared last year, likened it to the underwater, invisible bulk of an iceberg.
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He has the long, gray beard of a wizard from Middle-earth, and his life's work—poking and prodding DNA and delving into the secrets of life—isn't all that far removed from a world where deep magic is real.
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During his time in the war, Tolkien developed trench fever, which the movie embellishes by portraying Tolkien hallucinating images of dragons, evil, sword-wielding cavalry, and giant shadowy figures that resemble one of the primary villains of Middle-earth: Sauron.
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Third-party multiplatform titles like Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Assassin's Creed Origins look good, but you have to get close to the monitor (or, in practice, own a really big one) for the difference in detail to be significant.
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Manchester United have gone from bad to worse this season, and having lost away in the Europa League against a side that sound like they play somewhere around Middle Earth, it's fair to say confidence isn't at its highest right now.
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You only need to look at the lackluster receptions of recent big-budget gaming sequels that have dashed themselves to pieces on the rocky shores of fan expectations, like Destiny 2, Star Wars Battlefront II, and Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
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Mortensen said Vox's message was absurd because in the books Aragorn is "a multilingual statesman who advocates the knowledge and inclusion of the various races, customs and languages of Middle Earth" and should not be associated with the far right.
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Calling themselves the Tea Club and Barrovian Society, they told stories to one another, and were a major influence in encouraging Tolkien as he began to develop the earliest seeds of what would eventually become his larger Middle-earth mythos.
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The Second Age is a period of time in Middle-Earth's history that began with the destruction of a large portion of northwest Middle-Earth known as Beleriand and the banishment of the evil Valar (a god-like figure) called Morgoth.
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Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd and Viggo Mortensen struck a pose, using cutlery (and various props from the restaurant) as they pretended to fight a Middle Earth cave troll in a group shot shared to Monaghan's Instagram account.
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Departing Prague for Zlin, the birthplace and hometown of Ivana Trump, the president's first wife and mother of his oldest three children, is like traveling from an enchanted land of elves and fairies, and back to dull mortal Middle-earth.
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When the songs are finished, then I try to collect the lyrics, because then I already see what kind of mood one song has and on which scene or story it reminds me in connection with the Middle Earth concept.
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Some are mounted at nonprofit institutions — within the last year, New York has seen museum exhibitions about David Bowie (at the Brooklyn Museum), Harry Potter (at the New-York Historical Society) and Tolkien's Middle-earth (at the Morgan Library & Museum).
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While many fans questioned whether J. R. R. Tolkien's slim novel warranted Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation, most were happy to have another excuse to escape into Middle-earth, at the very least to see Ian McKellen in wizard's robes again.
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While those numbers are mind-boggling, some welcome and comforting news has surfaced about the forthcoming production: it's set to filmed in New Zealand, the "Middle Earth" of the mega-successful Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies trilogies.
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He made his children want to journey with him, to Middle-earth, to Bosworth Field, where Richard died, crying for a horse, or to Upper Bingley for the Great Sermon Handicap; he never doubted that we would want to come along.
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It presents a selection of family photographs and correspondences; manuscripts, typescript pages, and working notes from The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion (the title under which Christopher Tolkien assembled and edited the central portion of his father's long-labored-over, revised, but never completed "legendarium"); a number of the maps Tolkien drew, and endlessly revised and refined, of Middle-earth; some fascinating specimens of writing in Tolkien's very elegant Elvish languages and scripts (each carefully distinguished one from another); and a great number of illustrations and decorative designs, most of them related to Middle-earth.
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I wanted to do something different from Middle-Earth and from standard fantasy, and I've only realized over the years how much I'm influenced by people like Joan Aiken and Peter Dickinson and Rosemary Sutcliff, and Tolkien and Lewis and Lloyd Alexander, right?
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Illustrated letters from Father Christmas written by JRR Tolkien for his children will be included in Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, an exhibition of the author's manuscripts, artwork, maps, letters, and artifacts, opening at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries next year.
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I dreamed up universes where black girls like me had a place in Middle Earth and lived in the Shire, or were part of a clan of beautiful brown elves who saved Frodo's life when his chest was pierced with the morgul blade.
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I'm going to withhold judgment on the show until it actually materializes, but Tolkien's Middle-earth is vast, with a rich history and backstory to plumb for season after season, and I suspect that there's a good TV show in there somewhere.
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Particularly, data analysis startup Palantir has positioned itself as a force for good in the world thanks to its counterterrorism work, with a motto of "Save The Shire" — a reference to the pastoral home of the peaceful Hobbits of Tolkien's Middle-Earth.
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See, for example, video games with generative elements like No Man's Sky, which created unique planets for each player to explore; and Middle-earth: Shadow of War, which made enemies with elaborate histories that fascinated players as much as the game's story.
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Amazon is developing a series based on Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas, adaptations of Ringworld, Snow Crash, and Lazarus, a show set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and is rumored to be eyeing an adaptation of Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem.
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Also included in the sale are semi-recent titles like Far Cry: Primal, Just Cause 3, and the first season of Hitman, as well as well-received games like Grand Theft Auto V, the Dishonored Definitive Edition, and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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The $800 Middle Earth Ultimate Collectors Edition includes, over the span of 30 separate discs, the actual films (two Blu-ray discs each, for a total of 12), with an additional 18 discs worth of bonus material, director commentary, and making-of-documentaries.
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Special-effect spectaculars can also fail—the "Lord of the Rings" musical cost a staggering £25m to produce (the West End's most expensive production) but only managed to scrape a year on the precious stage before being sent back to Middle-Earth.
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The recent outcry grew out of widespread displeasure with a series of high-profile games released in 2017 (including "Star Wars: Battlefront II" and "Middle Earth: Shadow of War") that angered gamers with what they perceived as a particularly unfair loot box mechanic.
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But as the opening episodes of season two have already shown, even as the plot turns toward fantastical quests and magical realms that would fit right in alongside Middle-earth or Hogwarts, McNamara and Gamble have a firm handle on the story's real-world foundation.
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The Dúnedain traveled to Middle-Earth and began taking large swaths of land in the Second Age, and some of them fell under the influence of Sauron (who was, as far as we know, probably very attractive back then) and tried to attack the Valar.
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But the longer version is that I sometimes feel the only really great wargaming experiences I have are the ones that take place across a table, with a giant map of Europe, Middle-Earth, or the entire Pacific Ocean between me and an opponent.
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And Gonzales, who previously worked on Tom Clancy's EndWar, Fallout: New Vegas, and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (insert your own joke about what game names should and shouldn't have colons, here), reflects on a job well done with no little pride in his voice.
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All the history of this world, the languages and the races, all this together makes the Middle Earth concept unique and admirable, and for a very long time, Tolkien was the only one who could achieve this with no one around that could match him.
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" Showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay told Stuff, "as we searched for the location in which we could bring to life the primordial beauty of the Second Age of Middle Earth, we knew we needed to find somewhere majestic, with pristine coasts, forests, and mountains.
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As I marveled at some of the towering robotic creatures found later in the game, I couldn't help but think of my time playing Xenoblade Chronicles X. Meanwhile, slowly stalking through enemy camps and turning enemies into allies reminded me of Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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Taking a hint from Microsoft's search engine Bing, which debuted Klingon translation in 2013, Yandex Translate became the first engine to add Sindarin Elvish, or "Eglathrin" as it's known to native elven speakers, one of many dialects dreamed up by JRR Tolkien for his Middle Earth epics.
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Countless critics and viewers excoriated director Peter Jackson at the time of the film's release for choosing a format that left the audience members who weren't getting nauseous from the visuals thinking they looked "fake," even for a bunch of fantastical creatures running around Middle Earth.
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The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are only the iceberg-tip of Middle-earth: since Tolkien's death in 1973, his son Christopher has edited several-thousand pages of the author's unpublished writings, thus almost every year sees the release of a "new" Tolkien book.
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The upcoming game Star Wars Battlefront II and the recently released Middle-Earth: Shadow of War both feature loot box systems that offer players improvements on their weapons and abilities, meaning that loot boxes have a chance to give you something that gives you an advantage in the game.
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It is a shame that Mr Weigel devotes so little time to his descriptions of the scenes at the Marquee, UFO and Middle Earth clubs in London, and his sketches of the watershed proto-prog albums by The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Procol Harum and Pink Floyd feel cursory.
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Although Tolkien's art is not as well known as the monumentally successful novels, his charming illustrations for "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" (reminiscent of the visionary work of the 19th-century British painter Samuel Palmer) are dear to the hearts of many fans of Middle-earth.
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Things came to a head in 2017 when two of the year's most anticipated video game titles, Electronic Arts' "Star Wars Battlefront II" and Warner Brothers' "Middle-earth: Shadow of War," faced backlash from gamers due to the inclusion of micro transactions in exchange for so-called loot boxes.
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People want to get away from their dreary, humdrum lives, so whether it's Oz or Middle Earth or Hogwarts or you know a galaxy far, far away, it's just a great way to be swept away to a place of more fun than where we are right now.
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In Tolkien's case that means readers will find copious notes from his third son, Christopher Tolkien, who traces the story's evolution through a series of epic poems that are — like much of the Middle-earth canon — wildly inventive and technically flawless and also sort of insufferable at times.
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If Mr. Chazelle and Ms. Moore's concerns are correct, then we've reached a point where our tolerance for fantasy in film can accommodate intergalactic warriors and inhabitants of Middle-earth — or a couple waltzing across the sky — but not people who sing and dance better than we can.
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With Doug Brochu and Matt Kwan, he has started All-Wise Meadery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to attract an audience for what some consider to be the world's most ancient alcoholic beverage, one that was supposedly quaffed by King Midas, on Viking ships, and, fictionally, in Tolkien's Middle-earth.
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"All of us in the studio are really, really big Lord of the Rings fans, frankly; it's something where [we take these new creations] very seriously ourselves," says Andy Salisbury, a community manager at Monolith who went to Brazil to promote the new Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
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As Salisbury described Baranor, he explained that it's very important to create "a character that's well-rooted in the [Middle-earth] universe" but it's also important to design a character that reflects the perspectives of the world nowadays, in a body of work that deserved to be updated.
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In any case, the event isn't that embarrassing because Elrond is ACTUALLY descended from the Maiar, angelic beings of great power who came to Middle Earth and are able to wander the world unseen or shape themselves as elves or men or oh my god what am I even saying.
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Since then, it's added to that slate: a show set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth (and maybe Peter Jackson's franchise), Iain M. Banks' space opera Consider Phlebas (which is incidentally being adapted by the writer of the original Utopia series, David Kelly), and William Gibson's science fiction novel The Peripheral.
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The FTC this week disclosed that the broadcast giant gave "tens of thousands of dollars" to a number of YouTube celebrities, including the hugely popular PewDiePie (who has a colossal 46 million subscribers and reportedly makes $7 million a year), to promote 'Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor' without making relevant disclosures.
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I grew up watching The Simpsons and Friends and listening to Blink-182 and Dr. Dre and Bob Dylan and The Distillers and fixating on the Chelsea Hotel and treating America like a complex fantasy—the way that more literary kids fantasized about Narnia or Middle Earth or Hogwarts or whatever.
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While most people's minds race to Star Trek's Klingon when thinking of pop culture conlangs, the modern roots lie in J.R.R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth — specifically, the two different kinds of Elvish he began creating in the 1910s, and the histories he wrote to explain why there were two of them.
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In Amazon's press release, it said that the studio would "explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring," which might include the creation myths of The Silmarillion, or the origins of Gandalf the Grey, and would be a wonderful thing to explore, adding context to create a better Middle Earth.
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Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth by Ian Nathan Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings was a watershed moment in the film industry, and a new book by Ian Nathan chronicles the director's journey of bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's literary world to life.
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But with the company making huge investments in a range of new shows, such as an adaptation of Tolkien's Middle-earth, Ringworld, Snow Crash, Utopia, The Peripheral, Tales from the Loop, and others, it makes sense that it'll take the decision out of the hands of viewers and into those of the studio.
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Photo: David McNew (Getty Images)Amazon has a lot riding on its secretive, $250 million deal with The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien's estate, publisher HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema to produce a streaming show in the franchise's Middle-Earth setting, with expectations that the budget could cross one billion dollars.
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More than 60 women have filed sexual harassment complaints against IHOP, Applebee's restaurants Why a simple, lifesaving rabies shot can cost $10,000 in America Thousands of Facebook users spread child porn in a misguided attempt to stop child porn Novelist Lev Grossman on why James Joyce's Dublin matches J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
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It's about how he comes to create Middle-earth, and how its creation is tied in with the outbreak of World War I. The film looks a little generic as far as biopics go, but the way it intersperses the real world with the world Tolkien imagines could make it a bit more interesting.
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There's the aftermath of the destruction of Beleriand, everything that happened with Aragorn's ancestors in the new realm of Númenor (seen in the bottom left corner of the map) and on Middle-Earth, the rise of Sauron and the forging of the Rings of Power (including the One Ring), and a whole bunch of battles.
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If you need to build a set, you get timber and you get nails and you hammer a set together and you paint it and you make it look like it's whatever it is, a piece of Middle-Earth or a piece of ancient Rome or whatever it is, and computer technology is no different.
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In the months since, the studio has greenlit or otherwise developed ambitious adaptations of a slew of well-known science fiction and fantasy novels: J.R.R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth (which may align with the version adapted by Peter Jackson), Iain M. Banks' space opera Culture series, William Gibson's The Peripheral, and the conspiracy thriller Utopia.
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The story is one of the first that Tolkien wrote when he started dabbling with the larger world as he recovered from the injuries he sustained during World War I. In his book Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, John Garth wrote that this period of inactivity allowed his ideas for a fantasy world to come together.
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Blair, who studied illustration at RISD, creates large-scale paintings with fantastical, dystopian titles like 14 Real Life Billionaires You Won't Believe Really Exist and Decide the Fate of the Free World on Behalf of the Cast of 'The Real World: Middle Earth,' Including Fashion Santa, Big Pharma, Whoever Starred In 'Maniac Cop 3,' an Actual Ghoul, and a Cartoon Evangelical Kangaroo!
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The Twitter account for Amazon's untitled Lord of the Rings show tweeted out an image of a map of Middle-Earth and the message "Welcome to the Second Age," seemingly confirming that the show will take place long before the events of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, which took place toward the tail end of the Third Age.
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And while "ASOIAF" may not be intended as a cautionary tale, it undoubtedly resonates with our contemporary environment: Through the machinations of the various Westerosi houses, Martin can write about politics without writing about politics; unlike the mostly clear lines of good and evil drawn in Tolkien's Middle-earth, the morality of Martin's realm is not one of unambiguous heroes and villains.
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Tolkien explores the life of one of the most impactful authors of all time, focusing on his tumultuous youth, his college years, and his time in combat during World War I. It attempts to piece together some of the moments that inspired and impacted his crafting of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and the rest of his writings on Middle-earth and beyond.
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But when confronted with a game that fixes many of the trial-and-error problems of the original and drops it into a cool semi-open world, I'm suddenly way more interested in playing more of The Evil Within 2: For Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, we pulled off some technological magic, and found a way for Austin to be playing in New York, while I'm watching from Chicago.
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Lastly, if one is to take a tale of this kind seriously, one must feel that, however superficially unlike the world we live in its characters and events may be, it nevertheless holds up the mirror to the only nature we know, our own; in this, too, Mr. Tolkien has succeeded superbly, and what happened in the year of the Shire 1418 in the Third Age of Middle Earth is not only fascinating in A.D. 1954 but also a warning and an inspiration.
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Battlefront II proved a firestorm for a variety of reasons: the Internet has a hard on for tearing EA down every few years, Star Wars is as big as they come, and while other games in 2017 had included loot boxes, few were aggressive as Battlefront II. Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Forza Motorsport 2 focused the debate in October, prompting me to write a piece arguing poor and especially exploitative implementation of loot boxes was poisoning them forever.
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Although the cast won't feature any of the original actors from Marvel's film series, video game fans will recognize the list of voice actors as fairly star-studded regardless: Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights, The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series) as Star-Lord, Emily O'Brien (The Young and the Restless, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor) as Gamora, Nolan North (the Uncharted series, Pretty Little Liars) as Rocket, Brandon Paul Eells (Watch Dogs) as Drax, and Adam Harrington (The Wolf Among Us, League of Legends) as Groot.
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