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Middle-Earth Online

Remembering Middle-Earth Online, the LOTR MMO That Wasn’t

2023-01-25
By: Christian Cawley
On: January 25, 2023
In: Retro Games News
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Long before The Lord of the Rings Online, there was Middle-Earth Online. Except there wasn’t, because it was cancelled. Intended for release way back in 1999, a conflict of scope between the developers, publishers, and possibly even the Tolkien estate resulted in the game being postponed for 8 years, eventuallyRead More →

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