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LotRO's spellbinding 'Lieutenant of Dol Guldur' trailer
Turbine is stepping it up with their newest Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood trailer, Lieutenant of Dol Guldur. The voice acting, editing, music, creatures and setting are all enthralling to a degree that goes beyond our standard expectations. We've no doubt this one will get people's blood pumping, and in a good way. Seriously, this is the kind of stuff you expect when a company adopts an important IP -- especially where the voice acting is concerned. We can't wait to see what the future holds for Turbine trailers, especially considering the locales of Middle-earth the game has yet to expand into its world. Rohan? Helm's Deep? Minas Tirith? Osgiliath? Thinking of trailers for all these places makes us tingle with anticipation. Check out the trailer after the cut.
Osgiliath lost
One of the things we've been working on here in the background, here at Massively, is a big writeup of one of the most promising, detailed and downright spectacular role-playing settings in Second Life: The City of Osgiliath (formerly Lond Ernil). This amazing site, spread across six simulators was due to open this week, and we had a delicious feature planned to whet your appetite for role-playing in the Third Age of Middle Earth, in one of the largest cities in the Southern Kingdoms of Gondor. The group staging the setting has poured in over US$10,000 leasing the simulators from the owner during the build-out phase. Unfortunately, the whole site has been destroyed in a single stroke.
