… Sign in to your GameRant account Amazon has just confirmed that its Lord of the Rings MMO has been officially canceled. Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO was rumored to have been canceled following the major Amazon layoffs in October 2025, but the company hadn't officially confirmed anything until now. …
… The slow cancellation of Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO is especially ironic considering the Lord of the Rings Online is still going strong after nearly 20 years . …
Amazon hurled its Lord of the Rings MMO back into the fires of Mount Doom By Jessica Conditt May 14, 2026 4:25 pm EST The Lord of the Rings MMO in development at Amazon has been cancelled, but there's still a Tolkien-based something on the way, Eurogamer reports. …
Amazon has reportedly cancelled its Lord of the Rings MMO, according to sources familiar with the project. …
… Andrej Barovic May 14, 2026 2:21 pm Image via IMDb/New Line Cinema Amazon’s in-development The Lord of the Rings MMO, not to be confused with the existing The Lord of the Rings Online , has been canceled, according to reports. …
… In a memo explaining the layoffs’ impact on the company’s gaming division at the time, Steve Boom, head of Amazon Games, Twitch, and audio, wrote, “We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work — specifically around MMOs — within Amazo… …
… As for the Lord of the Rings MMO, that team "had like three people on it for the longest time," according to one source, "before they started moving New World devs to Lord of the Rings - and then everyone got laid off ." After much speculation, this source confirmed to Eurogamer that Amazon's The L… …