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.
Amazon first announced it was making a Lord of the Rings MMO back in May 2023 and the game entered its pre-production phase in late 2025. Amazon's now-canceled Lord of the Rings MMO would have been the second Middle-earth MMO on the market, with Daybreak's The Lord of the Rings Online still enjoying a sizable player-base 19 years after its initial launch.
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Back in October 2025, Amazon laid off around 14,000 employees. This monumental wave of layoffs affected a large portion of the Amazon Game Studios branch, and it was strongly suspected that the company's Lord of the Rings MMO had been canceled in the aftermath. In the days following the layoffs, a former Amazon Game Studios senior gameplay engineer wrote in a LinkedIn post that fans...
