Aug 23, 2023

Independent developer Free Range Games and publisher North Beach Games today announced the release date for their highly anticipated co-op survival crafting title, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, which will welcome Dwarves into the storied mines on Oct. 24 with a digital release for the PlayStation®5 computer entertainment...

Jul 5, 2023

Lord of the Rings is back with a new story focused on the Dwarves narrated by the brilliant John Rhys-Davis (Whom you will know from the movies) The title is based on the ending of The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, when Middle-earth enters its Fourth Age. The game follows the dwarf Gimli as he returns with the dwarves to the mines of Moria after...

May 16, 2023

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Amazon is making an MMO based on The Lord of the Rings.     A Lord of the Rings game is on the way from Amazon Games, as it enters an agreement with Embracer Group to develop an MMO game set within the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books. That’s right, Amazon Games has...

Jan 9, 2023

Kosmos revealed The Lord of the Rings: Adventure to Mount Doom, a new cooperative roll-and-move board game, for release into retail in Q2 2023. Players head off on Frodo’s quest to destroy the One Ring in the fiery belly of Mount Doom. The players assume the roles of the Fellowship and move each individual member across the landscape of Middle-earth on...

Sep 15, 2022

Amazon Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” made its entrance in the breakout shows ranking this week, its first full week of data since Amazon released the first two episodes on Sept. 1. It registered 34.8 times the average series demand over the past week which put it in the “exceptional” tier of shows, a level of demand that only the top...

Aug 17, 2022

Free League Publishing has announced The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying, a new game that adapts Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition rules for use in Middle-Earth. The game will introduce six new classes, six original “heroic cultures” found in Eriador, and rules for journeys, “wondrous artefacts”, and the more subtle style of magic found...

May 7, 2022

Some LPN Crew have a chat with Producer Raninia
*Note this episode was recorded April 21st, the day after the Runekeeper Satchel Issue So there is some talk of downtime, that was in the past*

Apr 14, 2022

  Hey all! We are going to be setting down for an interview  with Producer Raninia, next Thursday! And we want to ask him your burning questions!     We can’t promise we will get to all your questions, or even if we get them answered! but we are going to try! 🙂 So, respond to this post, or email podcast@lotroplayers.com and we will try and...

Feb 16, 2022

In case you happened to miss it, there is a new trailer out for the upcoming Amazon LOTR Show, and we get a better tease of what’s to come. The minute-long footage racked up a whopping 257 million online views, the highest number of any entertainment trailer (film, television, or streaming) that has ever premiered during a telecast of the Super Bowl,...

Feb 10, 2022

The worlds of Middle-earth are about to look a bit different. Saul Zaentz, has decided to release the movie, merchandising, gaming, and live event rights to “Lord of the Rings,” “The Hobbit” and other titles from author J.R.R. Tolkien are coming up for auction. The Tolkien properties are projected to fetch at least $2 billion, based on recent high valuations...

Jan 22, 2022

Our journey back to Middle Earth now has an official title. The new series from Amazon Prime will be called “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”    Amazon made the announcement while also releasing the first official trailer from the series. The new series will premiere on Amazon Prime on Sept. 2, 2022. “The Rings of Power unites all...

Jan 15, 2022

Thames & Kosmos Announced the latest Exit game, Exit: LotR – Shadows Over Middle Earth, an escape room board game, for release in June 2022. Exit will take players in the land  of Mordor where players follow Samwise Gamgee and Frodo on an epic, puzzle-solving adventure. Gandalf has sent them on a quest to destroy the One Ring, and players will...

Sep 11, 2021

Warner Bros. reveals that Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies are getting a 31-disc collector’s edition in October to celebrate The Fellowship of the Rings’ 20th anniversary. “The Middle-Earth Ultimate Collector’s Edition,” the box set consists of 31 discs — The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of...

Aug 27, 2021

Wizards of the Coast announced major plans for future Magic: The Gathering products, and one of them is a crossover set as part of the Universes Beyond. The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ will bring the incredible depth of the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien to life with a full Magic set release, and it’ll be released in...

Jul 13, 2021

The second major expansion for the adventure board game The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth will have you traveling the kingdoms of Gondor and Rohan to defeat invading mercenary forces. The big-box expansion includes 15 scenarios that will have you defending the tainted depths of Fangorn Forest and the ruins of Osgiliath against the mercenary forces...

Jun 11, 2021

Unlimited Graphic Design has taken movies to the next level. The Lord of the Rings is getting another movie, this time with animated treatment with a new film titled The War of the Rohirrim. New Line Cinema, the studio behind Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth-shattering Lord of the Rings films, is returning to J.R.R. Tolkien’s source material for the first time...

May 28, 2021

Ultra PRO Entertainment has announced a few games that are set in the iconic world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, entitled The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, releasing in July, and The Lord of the Rings: Journey to Mordor. Both games are updates to previous published works. The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth is a...

May 21, 2021

Ares Games announced The Battle of Five Armies: Revised Edition, an updated edition of the original two-player standalone game, for release in September. The epic boardgame inspired by the most famous battle from The Hobbit, The Battle of Five Armies will become available again by September 2021 with a revised edition, including an exclusive variant scenario...

Apr 17, 2021

Announced two years ago, it looks like Amazon Game Studios, has put the brakes on the upcoming LOTR MMORPG. According to Bloomberg this project is now dead. The contract negotiations between Amazon and Tencent were said to have caused a dispute that eventually led to the game’s cancellation. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that after Tencent’s...

Feb 12, 2021

This is a very special episode of the podcast this week! We have the very first crossover with our sister site LOTRO Players News! Drac is joined by LOTRO Players News Hosts Pineleaf (Also of DDO Players) and Teriadwyn we have a chat with several members of the Standing Stone Games Team Community Manager CordovanBill Champagne LOTRO Lead QA (Darth...