EA is working with Middle-earth Enterprises on a new mobile game.
EA is working with Middle-earth Enterprises on a new mobile game.
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Electronic Arts unveils mobile game The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth

Electronic Arts announced it is working on a free-to-play mobile game dubbed The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth.

EA is making the game under a license from Middle-earth Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, which has held the exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage, and other rights in certain literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit since the 1970s.

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