The Lord of the Rings Online Interview, Part One
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Development of a Lord of the Rings MMORPG is made more difficult by the films in that, as Jeff tells us, even before the movies, there was a great deal of imagery created around Lord of the Rings.
"Peter Jackson's films did an excellent job of illustrating [the lore] in cinematography, but we also draw from that same material so there's an obvious overlap and parallel in the way we look and do and the way they look and do". The example that Jeff used was referring to Hobbit Holes. Whether the story is being told through a video game or through a movie, the door to the Hobbit Holes are going to look the same, round with a doorknob in the middle.
