ROTWK reference

[Fredag]

As you all know, there's a game called Rise of the Witch King, and then there's Wrath of the Lich King

Here's a little something to show the similarities:

First thing, they are both an expansion to a game.

Rise of the Witch King - expansion to The Battle for Middle Earth 2
Wrath of the Lich King - expansion to World of Warcraft

Arthas and the Witch King were once normal men, then they were both corrupted and became evil dudes.

The Witch King recieved a ring from Sauron, and Arthas recieved Frostmourne from Ner'zhul (correct me if I'm wrong)

They both live, and come from the cold north. The Witch King from Angmar and The Lich King from Icecrown (Northrend)

And now, a few pictures:






The Witch King's "lair"


The Lich King's "lair"






If any of this is wrong, then please tell me :>

[Senzuri]

Haha, that looks strikingly similar...

[EcHoEs]

Ahem
Lich King has been in Warcraft lore ALOT longer than Witch King has been in LotR

[agni]

second pic pwns

[agni]

Ahem
Lich King has been in Warcraft lore ALOT longer than Witch King has been in LotR

no one said that lich king is newer :O

[elazard]

Ahem
Lich King has been in Warcraft lore ALOT longer than Witch King has been in LotR

well this is a joke? (i'm not english so i'm not sure )

[kingofrock]

You missed out that their names are similar and so are their helmets.

[Dombo]

Sorry buddy but Tolkien's books are older then the Warcraft Lore.

Tolkien had been writing “The Lord of the Rings” for more than 10 years. He wrote the first chapters in 1939 after the success of “The Hobbit”. The trilogy was published first in 1954-1955

Released in 1994, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, or Warcraft I, was the first game in the Warcraft series and one of the original Real Time Strategy games.

Seriously, which one is oldest?

[elazard]

well i was thinking about it and i guess he meant the character in the games (the age of their design and so on)

[dfk]

lol @ this to me it looks like they made 2 games out of 1 story line (but i dont know any of the 2 story lines) anyways +2 rep for researching some cool info

[jeleopard]

Sorry buddy but Tolkien's books are older then the Warcraft Lore.





Seriously, which one is oldest?

beat me to it

[c4m]

you forgot shadowvault, before you do any quests there, its a tower with a HUGE eye on top...sound familiar?

[Wiseguy42]

Ahem
Lich King has been in Warcraft lore ALOT longer than Witch King has been in LotR

No wait.... seriously?

the Witch king even got portrayed as we see him now earlier then the Lich King did.

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But yes of course the look the same, they are both the villains of a computer game/story. Then you gotta look like that, and I'm pretty sure there are some LotR fans over at blizzard, even in the game design quarters.

[Finalwish]

man icecrown citidel looks bad ass in that concept. how come we got a pos looking thing.

[Mr Barbeque]

mrs pacman and pacman both look the same and its basiclly the same thing why havnt any1 complained on that?