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Lord of the Rings Online: New Screens Feature a Fiery Boss

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
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Turbine has release three new screenshots from the Lord of the Rings Online expansion, Rise of Isengard. The screens show off a fiery dragon, Draigoch, from a 24-player raid. Check them out in our Lord of the Rings Online screenshot gallery.

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  • Jellyf1shJellyf1sh Member Posts: 40

    Kinda looks like "When goat mounts go BAADDD"!

  • yuckfoulolyuckfoulol Member Posts: 25

    whoa imagine that on top of your head

  • LongswdLongswd Member Posts: 155

    I thought Smaug was the last of the great dragons and was done away with in The Hobbit. How can this fit with canon?

     

  • TravisimoTravisimo Member Posts: 12

    Berephon (lore dev) said something during the first concepts of this guy referring to that, longswd... something about Draigoch actually being lesser to Smaug, making it one of the greatest of the *lesser dragons*. 

     

    Somewhere between Thorog and Smaug, then. 

  • McGamerMcGamer Member UncommonPosts: 1,073

    Actually you both are wrong. Listen to some of the podcasts from the Tolkien Professor. yes, an actual professor who teaches at an university in RL.

    Anyhow, The dragon in RoI is still a "Great" Dragon, only not as powerful as Smaug.

    No, that doesn't make him a "Lesser" dragon, because Tolkien said himself according to the professor in an interview that he never said Smaug was THE last, but the last OF the "Great" dragons. Meaning there were others still remaining.

  • itgrowlsitgrowls Member Posts: 2,951

    i just love it when people are all up in arms about canon, first off, it's a game. Second, there are notes upon notes drawings designs etc etc that were NEVER published and that are extremely difficult to get a hold of to even examine. The man's life is privately owned and is probably going to be put into a museum once his relative is dead.

  • DredphyreDredphyre Member Posts: 601

    Originally posted by itgrowls

    i just love it when people are all up in arms about canon, first off, it's a game. Second, there are notes upon notes drawings designs etc etc that were NEVER published and that are extremely difficult to get a hold of to even examine. The man's life is privately owned and is probably going to be put into a museum once his relative is dead.

    No. The ownership of his work is split between the Saul Zaentz company and the Tolkien Estate -- neither has control over the other. Tolkien also has considerably more than one living relative. His eldest surviving son, Christopher, could be considered the 'archivist' of his father's writings, and as such has worked rather tirelessly to promote those properties under his supervision in a literary and scholarly fashion. 

     

    The Saul Zaentz company has worked to commercialize the properties under its ownership, often fudging what might have been considered original intent on the part of the author in order to turn a dollar.

     

    Now having said that, since LotRO is F2P, can I opt NOT to pay for the 24-man raid that I'll never play? I mean, I don't want to subsidize those players' game play.

     

  • LongswdLongswd Member Posts: 155

    Originally posted by itgrowls



    i just love it when people are all up in arms about canon, first off, it's a game. Second, there are notes upon notes drawings designs etc etc that were NEVER published and that are extremely difficult to get a hold of to even examine. The man's life is privately owned and is probably going to be put into a museum once his relative is dead.


     

    Except no one is "up in arms", it was simply a question and was just as simply answered. Drama much?

  • BeachcomberBeachcomber Member Posts: 535

    Which book is this Dragon from, somone remind me?

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