2009 National Games of China the colours red, black, yellow, green and blue which are the colours of the Olympic rings and refer to the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The final logo was selected from 3040 entries in a public competition launched in 2007 across mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. The mascot for the games was a cartoon character called "Taishan Boy" (泰山童子）). It alludes the majestic stone of the Shandong's Mount Taishan. The mascot, dressed in a red shirt and white shorts, is an athletic figure giving the thumbs-up. According to the designer said, the character symbolizes "the spirit of
The Lord of the Rings Online Rings Online" would be developed and maintained by Standing Stone Games, a newly formed independent game studio made up of the groups that have been working on "The Lord of the Rings Online" and "Dungeons & Dragons Online" under Turbine Inc. before. The game's milieu is based on "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit". However, Turbine does not have rights to any other works in Tolkien's legendarium, such as "The Silmarillion". Much of the gameplay is typical of the MMO format: The player controls a character avatar which can be moved around the game world and interacts with