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Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx
From what I've seen, all of the people who got a review copy had seen the movies (obviously), a few had read the books, the vast minority had read extended universe lore like the Silmarillion, but none had a historian's knowledge of it. Nobody was incredibly well versed in the lore, so it didn't really bother them.
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That's not surprising. You cannot expect somebody who doesn't care about something to care about it.
However, to provide further context for the quoted post I was meaning that people might see the gameplay itself and not like it, thus deterring them from buying the game.
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There will never be a concerted effort to devise a canonistic version of a Middle-earth video game.
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Not by major developers, but there are some fan based projects underway that either have, or look likely to produce positive results.