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Tolkien “would be happy with.”

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A Hobbit man cooking in a cozy kitchen in Tales of the Shire

Two hobbits in a kitchen with a duck on the table during the upcoming Xbox Series X game, Tales of the Shire.

Tales of the Shire: a screenshot of the upcoming Lord of the Rings game�s artwork.

A player in space, firing a weapon at alien creatures in a pre-alpha screenshot of Stars Reach.

Shots of Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread in play

Screenshots from the Legend in the Mist TRPG

The Wheel of Time season 3

Baldur�s Village Stardew Valley Baldur�s Gate 3 mod

Stardew Valley

Michi, Pinky, and the rest of the Promise Mascot Agency standing in front of Kaso-Machi in key art for the game

Nintendogs 2005

Hollywood Animal screenshot of the script department menu screen

Cars pass in front of a roadside Bigfoot exhibit in American Truck Simulator

Todd Howard

Upcoming movies: Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Thunderbolts* trailer

Florence Pugh as Yelena in Marvel�s Thunderbolts

Overwatch 2 heroes battling

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2