![]() Gollum’s “My Precious” ability and Galadriel’s “Waters of Nenya” are a couple of direct nods to the fiction. The characters we’ve chosen fit a really obvious role in the game that players will recognize.”įans of Tolkien will immediately become acquainted with characters’ abilities, seeing as how many of them are pulled directly out of the films or books. You look at him and immediately think okay, he’s a striker. “Many of the characters make sense to people intuitively, like Legolas. “A lot of what we’ve done is picking a specific character from within the lore and thinking wow, this would really resonate with people,” Ruth Tomandl, producer at Monolith, said. ![]() With such a diverse cast of leaders and warriors, it isn’t hard to see how many of Tolkien’s figures would fit into roles on the battlefield. Imagine League of Legends or DOTA with Gandalf, Sauron, or Galadriel at the helm of the players’ teams. In fact, the Lord of the Rings fantasy seems tailor-made for the MOBA genre. ![]() Drawing characters from the series that fit into the classes of a MOBA game has been anything but challenging. As fans of the fiction they’re committed to respecting the lore and authenticity of such an expansive universe. Tackling a license is never exactly easy, but with breadth of content like that of Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Monolith Productions is embracing every second of it.
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