A 'Lord of the Rings' game is coming from the publisher of 'Warframe'

[Joystiq]

If you're itching for a new Lord of the Rings game to move past the

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, we have good news -- although it might not be quite what you're expecting. Athlon Games (the owner of Digital Extremes and Splash Damage)

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a licensing deal that will see it create an "online game set in the world of Middle-earth." There are precious few details beyond that, but you can likely rule out seeing the likes of Frodo or Aragorn when the title will be set "long before" the events of the LOTR novels, with new places and characters. Much like

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, Athlon isn't messing with the canonical material.

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