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Shadow of War unsheathes the Blade of Galadriel expansion

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released Blade of Galadriel, a new story expansion for Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the big-budget video game released last October based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth universe.

The downloadable content (DLC) lets gamers play as the Elven warrior Eltariel, for the first time. Eltariel was a major sidekick character, aiding Talion, the Ranger of Gondor who was trying to stop Sauron in Shadow of War, a new part of the Tolkien canon which was set in the 60 years between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which were among the most popular novels of all time.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.