In December 2001, a new power rose in the East on screen as Peter Jackson delivered what has gone on to become arguably the greatest film trilogy ever made. The first of The Lord of the Rings films, The Fellowship of the Ring, arrived in theaters and was soon followed up by two more installments in The Two Towers and Return of the King. In the years that followed, Jackson returned to the franchise with more tales, but their impact was as monumental as those that came before. However, in recent years, the craze for Middle-earth and its mysteries has returned, and there is no sign of slowing down yet.
In September 2022, Prime Video transported us to the Second Age of Middle-earth, with its extremely expensive series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which brought us never-before-seen bits of Tolkien lore prior to the main trilogy on-screen. A couple of seasons in, and the desire has not been as, Andy Serkis, the actor who played Gollum/Sméagol in the original Jackson trilogy, is set to tell another tale centered around the cursed Stoor Hobbit of the River-folk. The expansion of the Lord of the Rings franchise with Serkis’ The Hunt for Gollum is welcome news. However, it seems like every day is Christmas for those who subscribe to Tolkien’s lore as yet another project is being seriously considered.
Kingdom Come Deliverance is one of the greatest RPG games ever made, and the development team has an interesting update. An open-world **Lord of the Rings RPG **has been a long-standing rumor, but it’s been a while since there had been any suggestion of any project being in active development. Interestingly, the team behind Kingdom Come, while speaking in a recent conversation with GAMINGbible, teased exactly that. The most recent claims suggest Warhorse Studios are behind the unannounced title, with communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling and creative director Prokop Jirsa, teasing, yet not outrightly confirming its existence.
“We can’t give you specific details,” began Jirsa on the subject, “But yes, great things are coming.” To that, Stolz-Zwilling then stated: “One thing we definitely will do and will do forever, hopefully, is RPGs. We want to establish Warhorse as some kind of RPG powerhouse.” Jirsa then interjected to say, “Something is already in the works,” to which Stolz-Zwilling followed up with, “Almost there, but not yet.”
The scores below reveal your true character. Your highest number is your match. Even a tie tells a story — the Fellowship was never made of simple people.
You carry something heavy — and you carry it alone, even when you don’t have to. You were not born for greatness, and that is precisely why greatness chose you. Your courage is not the roaring, sword-swinging kind; it is quiet, stubborn, and terrifying in its refusal to quit. The Ring weighs on you more than anyone can see, and still you walk toward the fire. That is not weakness. That is the rarest kind of strength there is.
You are, without question, the best of them. Not the most powerful, not the most celebrated — but the most essential. Your loyalty is not a trait; it is a force of nature. You would carry the person you love up the slopes of Mount Doom if it came to that, and we both know you’d do it without being asked. The world needs more people like you, and the world is lucky it has even one.
You were born to lead, and you have spent years running from it. The crown is yours by right, but you know better than anyone that right means nothing without the will and the worthiness to back it up. You are tempered by loss, shaped by long roads, and defined by a code of honour you hold to even when no one is watching. When you finally step forward, the world shifts. Because it was always waiting for you.
You have seen more than you let on, and you say less than you know — which is exactly as it should be. You are a catalyst: you do not fight the battles yourself, you ignite the people who can. Your wisdom comes not from books but from an age of watching what happens when it is ignored. You arrive precisely when you mean to, and your presence alone changes what is possible. A wizard is never late.
Graceful, perceptive, and almost preternaturally calm under pressure — you see things others miss and act before others react. You do not need to make a scene to be remarkable; your presence speaks for itself. You are loyal to those you choose to stand beside, and that choice is not made lightly. You have lived long enough to know that the most beautiful things in this world are also the most fragile, and that is why you fight to protect them.
You are loud, proud, and absolutely formidable — and beneath all of that is one of the most fiercely loyal hearts in Middle-earth. You don’t do anything by half measures. Your friendships are forged like iron, your grudges run as deep as mines, and your courage in battle is the kind that makes legends. You came into this fellowship suspicious of everyone and ended it willing to die for an elf. That is not a small thing. That is everything.
You think in centuries and act in absolutes. Order, dominion, control — not because you are cruel by nature, but because you have decided that the world left to itself always falls apart, and you are the only one with the vision and the will to hold it together. You were not always this. Something was lost, or taken, or betrayed, and the version of you that stands now is the answer to that wound. The tragedy is that you’re not entirely wrong — just entirely too far gone to course-correct.
You are a study in contradiction — pitiable and dangerous, cunning and broken, capable of both cruelty and something that once resembled love. You are defined by loss: of innocence, of self, of the one thing that gave your existence meaning. Two voices war inside you constantly, and the tragedy is that the better one sometimes wins, just not often enough, and never at the right moment. You are a warning, yes — but also a mirror. We are all a little Gollum, given the right ring and enough time.
The tales of Middle-earth are quite vast, so much so that one can’t be shocked at how many projects are coming through. In the past 48 hours, at the time of this writing, it has been confirmed that* The Rings of Power* Season 3 will premiere before the end of this year. After several months of updates, the full cast for the next Lord of the Rings movie, The Hunt for Gollum, was finally released last week. It was a bitter-sweet pill as it confirmed that the beloved Viggo Mortensen would not star in the film, with Aragorn being recast with Jamie Dornan. The film is set to premiere worldwide next year on December 17.
Check out the first two seasons of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 3.
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