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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum occurs between the events of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again—when Bilbo Baggins obtains the One Ring—and The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of The Lord of the Rings. [4] The game depicts Gollum's capture, as depicted in Tolkien's Unfinished Tales. [b]
The game was released to generally negative reviews. Ahead of Gollum ' s initial release, a new mobile game, titled The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth, was released for iOS and Android on May 10, 2023 by Electronic Arts, [52] [53] and is the first game to be released by the publisher since The Lord of the Rings: Conquest.
In the game, Shelob shape-shifts to assume the form of an attractive woman. Following criticism of this decision, the creative director Michael de Plater explained that Gollum and Shelob were "the unsung heroes of The Lord of the Rings": Shelob senses Frodo's weakness and makes a pact with Gollum to hasten him to Mount Doom and destroy the ring.
Video Games wrote a review with few negative mentions, awarding the game a score of 4/5, [53] while Computer and Video Games called the game an essential purchase for Lord of the Rings fans, scoring the game a 9.2/10. [54] Eurogamer scored the game a 9.0/10, calling it tough to resist. [55]
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Gollum appears in a 1989 three-part comic book adaptation of The Hobbit, scripted by Chuck Dixon and Sean Deming and illustrated by David Wenzel. [52] The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a video game centred on Gollum, was released in 2023, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, by Daedalic Entertainment ...