It looks good, the two different styles mesh well together, and the frame rate remains consistent despite all the object and character animations. In the fashion of most Lego titles, the environmental design is a mixture of realistic models and Lego pieces, the latter making up most of the characters, usable items and interactive objects, while the former makes up the visual aesthetic. Leave it to Traveller’s Tales though to alleviate my worries, as they expertly weave Lego charm and Tolkien literature into a web of fun and nostalgia that hits the right notes in all the right places. Star Wars and Harry Potter, for example, are in many ways naturally light hearted, both intended originally for younger audiences, but the story of Frodo’s perilous sojourn into the heart of Mordor to destroy the one ring inspires a much darker subject matter. In video games alone we’ve witnessed a wave of Lego adaptations, most recently by the talent of Traveller’s Tales, the developers best known for their successful Lego parodies of the Batman, Harry Potter and Star Wars series.Īs was inevitable, Tolkien’s widely successful novel The Lord of the Rings got the same Lego treatment, with the entire trilogy remade into building block form but what concerned me was whether a story with such a serious, dramatic tone would transition well into the often goofy Lego franchise as other games have in the past. However, Lego toys are alive and popular today, and over the years we’ve seen more then a few of our beloved books, cartoons and movies transformed into colorful plastic and assimilated into the ever growing Legoverse.
Luckily for his fans, he never got that chance. After all, Lego didn’t exist until after the 1930’s, and if it did, our friend Tolkien would have been far to busy constructing scale models of Middle Earth out of Lego pieces to spend much time writing fantasy books. Tolkien dared to imagine an epic tale of a small, unassuming Hobbit getting roped into a realm wide struggle between the forces of light and darkness, a creature who would become the central figure in an unlikely fellowship charged with a task that would decide the fate of Middle Earth, I wonder if he ever sat back and imagined it all…in the form of Lego bricks.
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