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LOTR: War of the Ring Real-Time Strategy Game
DiZASTiX writes "Just saw this on Gamespot about LOTR: War of the Ring a Warcraft III like LOTR game: "The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring has only been in development for around seven or eight months, but at a press event in Berlin this week we were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the game in its current state. The map itself was relatively featureless at this stage of development but boasted some great grass textures and trees, which were occasionally shadowed by the suggestion of clouds passing overhead. More impressive still were the character models on display, which, although unfinished, bore more than a passing resemblance to the colorful, stylized units of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.""
I am getting really tired with all the lotr movies, books published in 100 different ways, action figures, playing cards and everything. I loved the books, the movies were okay-ish but IMHO there were no need for them either. Why could they not just let the books rest as the king of fantasy litterature ?
is being framed in simplistic good vs. evil terms by our leaders is disturbing because it takes complicated issues and reduces them to trite overgeneralizations
The irony there is that if the general populace were smart enough and/or cared enough, they would see right through those trite overgeneralizations for themselves. Unfortunately, they're dumb sheep who need things simplified before they know how to think. Sucks, but that's the way it is.
Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
> There has never been a better time for LotR to rise into popular
> culture - it reminds us that there are indeed things worth
> fighting for.
Like in the case of Iraq, oil!
Or did you mean "our way of life"? Yes, by annihilating Iraq, we will be truly fighting for our way of life. Those Iraqis sure resemble, at least in skin tone but probably in mindset, the Saudi terrorists who attacked us.