https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/02/the-lord-of-the-rings-rights-are-up-for-sale-new-movies-games-inevitable.html
Just inject them into my veins
You know, when Christopher Tolkien was being all pissy about Peter Jackson turning his father's novels into dumb action schlock for manchildren or whatever, at least there was some discernable human impulse behind it
The Book of Tom Bombadil, premiering on Disney Plus
We can finally get the Adam Sandler version of LOTR that we all deserve.
I'll just be happy if they don't somehow turn the whole thing into NFTs
Well IP law seems to vex cryptobros so I think we'll be safe. They're more likely to just buy the books and think that gives them the right to do stuff with them like that one guy who bought Jodorowsky's Dune.
One group of cryptobros has already made an NFT series based on the anime Inuyasha, which they definitely didn't have the rights to when they did it. Eventually someone is going to provoke a studio into suing the pants off them, and then the entire Ethereum blockchain might end up getting shut down under the pretense of enforcing copyright law.
Sauron used to be hot until the simping of Numenor. That's canon.
You are in a dark cave
walk forward
You are in a dark cave
look around
You are in a dark cave
use Precious
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Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor, where you play as an immortal zombie ranger possessed by the ghost of the elf who forged the rings.
Listen I just want Madden and NBA except with orcs (i know about blood bowl I mean like actual football/basketball gameplay but they're just orcs and also murder can happen)
I really enjoyed the Return of the King video game for PS2. Scenes from the movies faded in and out of gameplay and you got to follow each faction of the fellowship nonlinearly by unlocking missions and following their progress almost like a skill tree. Neat stuff
ngl I would be pretty stoked for a battle for middle earth remake.
Those games were so fucking good. I still play a modded version
The Helm's Deep level in the first game is still my favorite mission in an RTS. Perfect difficulty on hard
Imagine a mass trolling campaign for something like this where a bunch of leftists bought the right to Lord of the Rings and made it public domain.
I can fucking guarantee Tolkien would want his work to be public domain by now
there's one drawback to that, the inevitable shitty Disney movie based on it.
Actually Tolkien had said that he would have liked Disney to adapt The Hobbit. When he said this Walt Disney was alive and Fantasia was their latest movie, so different Disney
but then I realized it’s for sale - not going into public domain lol
:sadness-abysmal:
Wake me up
can't wake up inside
save meeeeeee
Can we please have a proper role playing game with dungeon crawling, lore friendliness, etc.
Does anybody know of an infographic that shows how much the Tolkien Estate has already made from all the LOTR stuff? I tried to scan the Wikipedia page but it only gave me a headache: Tolkien Estate. I don't want to read - I just want to feast my eyes on the numbers.
I wonder how the people that manage the estate do meetings. Do they meet in some borrowed corporate conference room on a very high floor of the building to show how important they are? Do they put on business attire?
what I like to do is never see any LoTR content newer than the return of the king. It's great because it can't be ruined in my mind by worse imitations.
Remember when they made a LOTR version of Star Wars: Battlefront II but it wasn't really that good
no, i only remember when they made an LOTR version of battlefront and it was GOTY
Was it that good? I like SWBFII (2005) a lot and I tried LOTR: Conquest back in the day but didn't really enjoy it for some reason.
Conquest was just kinda clunky and not really fleshed out at all. Idk it was fun as a power fantasy for a while, bashing anyone and everyone as Sauron but it got old fast
Yeah, that was my experience that it felt clunky. I like the idea of the game and I wish it had the same level of polish as SWBFII, but the latter probably had a higher budget and it's gotta be easier to make a firearm-based warfare game than a melee-based one.
I unironically enjoyed the heck out of LOTR: Conquest. It was dumb fun spawning as like, either a human with a greatsword, an elf with a bow, a dwarf with an axe, and so on. I guess I'm a sucker for those kind of games where you get to play the mooks, the faceless soldiers
