I’ve just finished reading The Hobbit to mini-Melmoth. If there’s one thing in the book that I would like to see in a future Lord of the Rings Online expansion, it would have to be Beorn. Not the beardy man-bear himself, but the race of Beorn, as is mentioned towards the end of the book.
I’m a sucker for shape-shifters, and the lore is all right there, ripe for inclusion. Come on Turbine, playable Beorns in your next major expansion.
You know you want to.
Or you know I want you to, at least.
NA servers in bout a year, european servers… after the two hobbit movies hit regular television…
Crikey, with the way The Hobbit movies keep getting delayed, that’ll be somewhere around 2045 in Europe then.
If it were 6 months ago, I would say it would never happen: Turbine only had rights to LOTR, not including Hobbit. BUT, WB does have the rights to the Hobbit, from what I gather, so it is a possibility now!
Hoom, good point, the shape-shifters certainly didn’t ‘represent’ in Lord of the Rings. One might consider those bears to be quite busta, what what.