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This is a list of Middle-earth video games.It includes both video games based directly on J. R. R. Tolkien's books about Middle-earth, and those derived from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. which in turn were based on Tolkien's novels of the same name.
In 1982, Melbourne House began a series of licensed Lord of the Rings graphical interactive fiction (text adventure) games with The Hobbit, based on the book with the same name. [3] The game was considered quite advanced at the time, with interactive characters that moved between locations independent of the player, and Melbourne House's ...
Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, previously marketed as The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Strategy Battle Game, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Strategy Battle Game and The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies Strategy Battle Game, is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop.
The One Ring Roleplaying Game is a tabletop role-playing game set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, set at the time between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.Designed by Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi, the game was initially published by Cubicle 7 in 2011 under the title The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild.
Middle-earth video games at E3 2011. Tolkien's influence extends to role-playing games including Gary Gygax's 1974 Dungeons & Dragons. [67] Gygax was obliged, after a lawsuit, to rename some especially Tolkienesque types of character, such as Hobbits (which became "Halflings"), Nazgul (which became "Wraiths") and the Balrog (which became "Balor").
The game progresses through a series of "fetch quests" in which the player must explore vast environments to retrieve items relevant to the game's story. These items are often simple trinkets that have been misplaced by the game's non-player characters (NPCs). Much like the book, the game begins in the Shire, the land of the Hobbits.
The Hobbit is an illustrated interactive fiction video game released in December 1982 [1] for the ZX Spectrum home computer. Based on the 1937 book The Hobbit , by J. R. R. Tolkien , it was developed at Beam Software by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and published by Melbourne House .
The game is based on the 1937 novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien, and has no relationship with the Peter Jackson-directed The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. At the time, Vivendi, in partnership with Tolkien Enterprises , held the rights to the video game adaptations of Tolkien's literary works, whilst Electronic Arts held the rights to ...