Christian B. @ChrisB. Jul 26. "Another future release to be presented for the first time at Gen Con is the long-awaited third expansion for War of the Ring". So a prototype of some sort will be available for PR and possibly test playing. That's my conclusion of that sentence anyway. Rather, it comes from Middle English middel-erde, itself a folk-etymology for the Old English word middangeard ( geard not meaning 'Earth', but rather 'enclosure' or 'place', thus 'yard', with the Old Norse word miðgarðr being a cognate). It is Germanic for what the Greeks called the οικουμένη ( oikoumenē) or "the abiding place of All day pages should have two categories. The first is the Dates cateogry and the second should be the category for the month of that date. Also any day that is not a two-digit day should add a pipe ( "|" ), then the abbreviation for the month, and lastly the day with a leading zero. This will ensure that the days are ordered properly in the This is a list of Middle-earth video games. It includes both video games based directly on J. R. R. Tolkien 's books about Middle-earth , and those derived from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. which in turn were based on Tolkien's novels of the same name. Then there’s a very big jump ahead to The Hobbit trilogy, which takes place in the Third Age of Middle-earth, and around 60 years before The Lord of the Rings Movies. Battle for Middle-earth 2 is an iconic game, believed by many to be the best in a long line of Tolkien video game adaptations. It’s certainly up there for me, and despite having long given up on hopes of a sequel, a fan-made project looking to revive the series could scratch that RTS itch. With such passionate developers behind the wheel, it Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth in 2012 in the form of his movie trilogy based on The Hobbit™ ushered in a new era for the Strategy Battle Game. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey™ introduced Thorin Oakenshield and company to the setting, and pitted them against deadly new adversaries, including Azog and the Goblin King over the 7EFxW0.