(Currently, my work desktop background is the virgin cover art from the SFBC hardcover edition of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire<\/i> trilogy<\/a>. Ships of the line and dragons, a winning combination.)<\/p>\n I bring up The White Council<\/i> because yesterday I made a surprising discovery; a 16-month calendar based on the game was planned.<\/p>\n Suffice it to say, the calendar never came to be, because the game never came to be.<\/p>\n A Lord of the Rings<\/i> video game calendar was<\/i> released, one based on The Battle For Middle-Earth II: Rise of the Witch-King<\/i>. It hangs in my cubicle at the office. Based on the image I found of the White Council<\/i> cover, I would say that the White Council<\/i> calendar became the Witch-King<\/i> Calendar, or at least the concept of one led to the other.<\/p>\n Perhaps even some of the artwork of the former carried over into the latter.<\/p>\n It’s an interesting calendar, the Witch-King<\/i> calendar. When I first saw it, at a calendar kiosk at the local shopping mall, I thought it odd that a calendar based on a Lord of the Rings<\/i> video game would have been produced. Especially when there was new Tolkien artwork in The Children of Hurin<\/i> calendar.<\/p>\n Given the number of the Witch-King<\/i> calendars that I’ve seen in the dollar bins at bookstores in the weeks since the New Year, I don’t imagine that it sold especially well.<\/p>\n Yet.<\/p>\n For a fantasy calendar, it’s not terrible. For a Lord of the Rings<\/i> calendar, it’s decent.<\/p>\n It’s not the best Lord of the Rings<\/i> art calendar I’ve ever seen. But for what it is, the Rise of the Witch-King<\/i> calendar will do.<\/p>\n I can’t help but think of what a White Council<\/i> calendar would have looked like, though. In my mind, it was absolutely amazing<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A bit more than a year ago, I was anxiously anticipating the Lord of the Rings video game, The White Council. An open-ending role-playing game, along the line of Morrowind, The White Council would have put gamers in the role of a character in the period a few decades prior to The Lord of theContinue reading “On Two Calendars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[540,368,4091,541],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien","tag-calendar","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-video-games","tag-white-council","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"white-council-calendar\"](\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/white-council-calendar-640x585.jpg\")
I can only imagine what might’ve been in the calendar. Would it have been artwork, like the desktop backgrounds? The Northern Argonath? The vast Dwarven city? The home of Radagast the Brown? Concept artwork?<\/p>\n