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Middle Earth Online: Then and Now

Tony posted this on August 8th, 2008. It has No Comments »
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Middle Earth Online Warg Circa 2003

I’m in the process of adding images to MMeOw’s new Gal­leries sec­tion. I thought some of the images I came across on press sites were of spe­cial note, so I uploaded them first. These images are back from 2002 to 2004 for what was then The Lord of the Rings: Mid­dle Earth Online.

You can check out all of the shots and art­work I have from this period in the Gal­leries sec­tion now (in addi­tion to art­work from then). How­ever, I thought it would be inter­est­ing to make some com­par­isons between the two ver­sions of the game. While the final ver­sion of The Lord of the Rings Online cer­tainly looks bet­ter in essen­tially every way, it’s inter­est­ing to see how many aspects of the game remained the same or were at least inspired by these ear­lier builds.

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