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“I wisely started with a map.” So said Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien about creating his epic world and now Amazon has done the same thing to hype us for their upcoming series.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/amazons-lotr-series-wont-arrive-for-a-while-but-heres-s-1832652345
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Oh, come on. Like they weren’t going to try and get a little bit of Tolkien’s beloved fantasy epic into this movie, somehow.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-comes-to-life-on-a-battlefield-in-1832560815
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Whether in life, art, or fandom, romance drives us all. We imagine ourselves with the one we love. In TV and movies, we cheer for characters to live happily ever after. And these days, even if those fictional people aren’t necessarily involved, we just “ship” them together. Easy-peasy.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/reylo-headlines-a-beautiful-art-show-of-meet-cutes-1832175601
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Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's regular column all about the latest in tabletop and roleplaying game news—focusing on sci-fi and fantasy stuff, of course. Toy Fair 2019 is on the horizon, and io9 will be there! In the meantime, we’ve got plenty of newly announced games for 2019, including a Kickstarter for a…
https://io9.gizmodo.com/journey-to-middle-earth-riverdale-and-deep-space-nine-1831835596
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Bad news for fans of LEGO, Lord of the Rings, and buying things: Warner Bros. has taken The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit away from us—possibly forever.
https://kotaku.com/warner-bros-pulls-lego-lord-of-the-rings-games-from-st-1831514501
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Things have not been going too swell for British Prime Minister Theresa May as of late. After a majority of ministers within the House of Commons voted to find the British government in contempt of Parliament (for the first time in history) for not publishing details about May’s much-maligned Brexit plan that was…
https://io9.gizmodo.com/andy-serkis-doing-gollum-as-a-brexit-hungry-theresa-may-1830991462
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There was once a time when movie posters—not movie trailers—did all the heavy lifting to convey the magic and wonder promised by a film’s upcoming release. Portugal-based artist Luis Melo does the kind of illustration work that speaks to those wonderful posters of yesteryear in a truly masterful way.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-artists-movie-poster-concepts-will-blow-your-mind-1830587433
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Before Peter Jackson, there was Ralph Bakshi, who put together a wild, rotoscoped take on Lord of the Rings that became a cult classic and helped propel the series into the unending imagination of fans.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/ralph-bakshi-remembers-the-chaos-and-thrill-of-making-h-1830359129