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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developers Warhorse Studios are refusing to confirm or deny a rumour that they're making a Lord of the Rings game for Embracer. This could indicate one of two things: firstly, they are making a Lord of the Rings game for Embracer. And secondly, they are not making a Lord of the Rings game for Embracer. We can rest assured, at least, that they're making a "huge, immersive RPG", in the words of content director Ondrej Bittner. Huge AND immersive? Sounds like Orc mischief to me.

The original rumour came from a Polish Tolkien podcast last month, in which localisation specialist Ryszard Chojnowski (who has worked with CD Projekt and BioWare, among other credibility-conferring big shops) mentions hearing about the LOTR game from someone else.…