Gaming and filming rights to J.R.R Tolkien projects including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are reportedly up for sale and the rumors suggest that Amazon is leading the race for both.

According to Variety, J.R.R owner Saul Zaentz Co. has hired ACF Investment Bank to orchestrate the sale of its Tolkien holdings. The holdings include; merchandising, live events and theme parks, reports suggest that the cost of the holdings are valued at $2 billion. The Saul Zaentz Co was set up by producer Saul Zaentz who died back in 2017. He was responsible for Oscar-winning films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus and The English Patient.

As stated above, Amazon have an interest in obtaining the rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit licenses, Amazon are also set to launch a new Lord of the Rings TV show in September. Currently, Amazon are leading the race to obtain the rights at this time.

It has been put forward that Amazon could have possibly spent over or at least £500 million pounds on the first eight episodes of the upcoming TV adaption; The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Interestingly enough, last April, Amazon Game Studios said it had cancelled a Lord of the Rings MMO it was co-developing with Athlon Games, a US subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Leyou Technologies. The cancellation of that project was due to a dispute between Amazon and Tencent  which acquired Leyou in December 2020.

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Quantum Break
The Xbox One exclusive will feature Lord of the Rings and X-Men cast

Lord of the Rings star, Dominic Monaghan, and X-Men star, Shawn Ashmore, will be featuring in Remedy Entertainment’s upcoming game – Quantum Break. How exciting!

You can see the two strapping lads (in the photo above) in their motion capture suits. The photo was taken in a Los Angeles studio and was released via Remedy’s official Twitter account.

 “I’ve been holding this in for a while!” Ashmore said on his personal Twitter account. “Feels great to finally say I’m apart of @remedygames #QuantumBreak! It’s going to be such a great game!”

Quantum Break is not just a video game, as it’s also going to be paired with a live-action show. The game tells the story of the good old heroes while the show clues us up on the villains. Remedy also released a 16-minute trailer last month which lets us in on Quantum Break’s “time-amplified” gameplay. 

Yes… Yes, this is exciting and it looks like it’s going to be a cracking game!

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 The Lord of the Rings mobile game
Following up Shadow of Mordor is another LOTR treat for the mobile!

Free-to-play video game studio Kabam today released a brand new Lord of the Rings game called Legends of Middle-earth. This brand new game is available to download for FREE through iTunes and Google Play.

You commence your journey by choosing your character (Dwarf, Human, Hobbit or Elf) and are then guided through the tutorial, which only takes a few minutes, by Gandalf himself! Once this is completed, you’ll travel across the LOTR universe and meet a host of characters along the way such as Frodo, Legolas, Boromir and Aragorn, to help you “annihilate the forces of evil”!

Through upcoming expansion packs, you’ll get to go to places such as Mordor, Rohan and Gondor. As Legends of Middle-earth is a free-to-play game, it comes with microtransactions. Currency is in the form of Mithril and you can buy allotments for anywhere from $5 to $100. Currency can be spent on Lembas Bread (restores stamina) and Ent-draughts (restores energy), among a range of other things.

This game is Kabam’s third LOTR game, following Kingdoms of Middle-earth and Armies of the Third Age.

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