The timing might be advantageous to the game. In 2019, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series was still in its early stages, while the most recent major Tolkien game (Middle-earth: Shadow of War) was out of print. It’s a very different story in 2023. The Rings of Power programme on Amazon is a huge hit, and cinematic effects company Weta Workshop is developing its own game based on the series. There’s a newfound interest in hobbits and orcs, and Gollum may profit from it.
