*the day after I saw Fellowship, I was telling a friend how the snippets of Elvish provoked the same response in me that I get when hear bits of French or Russian, the two languages I studied in high school & college I'd actually forgotten that I'd committed a lot of the Elvish poetry in LOTR to memory. At the time, I remember how amazing the "seamless" transition was from movie footage to gameplay now, of course, they seem jarringly simplistic. One of the reasons why I got a PS2, though, was the old EA Lord of the Rings brawlers. I'm actually getting this game in spite of the Middle Earth background - the Nemesis system sounds like the first really new thing in gaming in a while, and something that could make the world feel more alive and responsive to what I'm doing. I used to be a huge Tolkien fanboy*, but that's kind of gotten burnt out me around the 12th time I saw the director's cut of the Jackson trilogy.
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