The same folks at Pandemic Studio that brought us the first two Destroy All Humans and the Star Wars Battlefront games have been working hard on The Lord of the Rings : Conquest for PS3 and Xbox 360.
This totally makes since cause they are owned by EA and EA has been making The Lord of the Rings games for some time now. It looked like the intense squad based gameplay of a Battlefront game combined with the lush hugetastic epic battles of Middle Earth went together like peanut butter and chocolate in one delicious gaming confection.
It's got online combat, tons of setting and characters from the movies, Hugo Weaving (Elron, Agent Smith, Pricilla Queen of the Desert) as the narrator and mount combat that includes Warg riders, horses and flipping dragons.
You get to play both good and evil and there is hobbit combat as the Shire gets attacked by the forces of Sauron. No word if you can use hobbit weed as a power up. This is shaping to to be a super sweet game for this fall.
It was a good idea for EA to get the book license from Vivendi when they did.
But I still can't forgive them for disappointing Peter Jackson with the first two LOTR titles. That lead him to Ubisoft where he did King Kong with Michel Ancel and after that game appearing in bargain bins worldwide, decided to do it himself with Wingnut Interactive (with reports indicating it's just a name and nothing more than a hype machine for a new Halo title).