Middle-earth games Middle-earth games Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike computer game derived from Umoria (the C for Unix port of a game called Moria). The first version was created by Alex Cutler and Andy Astrand at the University of Warwick in 1990. It was later enhanced by many others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angband (game)"
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms is a medieval fantasy real time strategy game created by Clayton Kauzlaric and released by Cavedog Entertainment in 1999. Conflict of Arda is a TC (Total Conversion) for it, made by Red Warlord. ...more on Wikipedia about "Conflict of Arda"
Elendor is a MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination) server based on J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, especially The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Users create characters according to the theme of the books, depending on the culture and species of choice. The purpose is to create a role-playing environment as close as possible to Tolkien's Middle-earth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elendor"
FuryBand is a roguelike computer game created by The Fury. He based it off of the ToME engine, and borrowed some stuff from other ToME modules. ...more on Wikipedia about "FuryBand"
Middle-earth Collectible Card Game (MECCG) is a collectible card game released by Iron Crown Enterprises in late 1995. It is the first CCG based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, with added content from ICE's Middle-earth Role Playing Game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Middle-earth Collectible Card Game"
Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) was a subset of the Rolemaster role-playing game rules set in Tolkien's Middle-earth and published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.). ...more on Wikipedia about "Middle-earth Role Playing"
Moria is an old roguelike computer game, based on a story from The Lord of the Rings. The goal in the game is to reach the bottom of the maze of mines of Moria and kill the Balrog. The original version was written by Robert Alan Koeneke at the University of Oklahoma after he became hooked on Rogue but could not run it on the VAX 11/780 computer running VMS to which he had access. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moria (computer game)"
MUME, Multi-Users in Middle Earth, is a game, one of the early offsprings of DikuMUD. Started in 1991 by Philippe Rochat, who was soon joined by Claude Indermitte, Pier Donini, and David Gay, the game was created as an homage to J.R.R. Tolkien's world as described in " The Lord of the Rings". ...more on Wikipedia about "MUME"
The Hobbit is a computer game released in 1982 and based on the book The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was developed by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House for most computers available at the time, from the more popular computers such as the ZX Spectrum, and the Commodore 64, through to such esoteric computers as the Dragon 32 and Oric computers. By arrangement with the book publishers, a copy of the book was included with each game sold. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Hobbit (video game)"
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (LotRO) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth during the time of The Lord of the Rings. It is being developed by Turbine and, while the release date has yet to be announced, is expected to launch in 2006. It was previously called Middle-Earth Online, and was a joint production with Vivendi Universal Games. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Lord of the Rings Online"
The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Adventure Game, released by Decipher Inc. in 2002, is a role-playing game set in the Middle-earth of J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction. The game is set in the years between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, but may be run at any time from the First to Fourth Age and contains many examples of how to do so. Sourcebooks cover the events on the three books and films in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Adventure Game"
The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game (LoTR SBG), often referred to by players as Lord of the Rings, is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, based on The Lord of the Rings films and novels. It was initially released in 2001 to tie in with the movie The Fellowship of the Ring. New box sets with updated rules were also released for The Two Towers and The Return of the King movies. Later Games Workshop also began to add content that was featured in the original novels but not in the film adaptations (e.g. Tom Bombadil, Radagast and Glorfindel) called the 'Shadow and Flame' collection. This was generally supported, but there were mixed reactions when Games Workshop invented characters and wrote histories for lands Tolkien wrote little about, such as Harad. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game"
The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game (a.k.a. "LOTR TCG" or "LOTR") is a collectible card game produced by Decipher, Inc. Released November in 2001, it is based on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and the J. R. R. Tolkien novel on which it was based. Decipher also have the rights to The Hobbit novel but have not yet released any cards based on it. In addition to images taken from the films, in 2004 WETA Workshop produced artwork depicting characters and items from the novel absent from the films for use on cards. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game"
The War of the Ring was the 2005 Annual Online Summer Campaign for Games Workshop, based in the United Kingdom but open to all countries. It was launched on June 1 2005, and was the first such campaign to feature the Lord of the Rings miniature wargaming system. The Campaign was promoted in Games Workshop hobby centres worldwide, in their monthly supplement " White Dwarf", and in their fortnightly magazine " Battle Games in Middle Earth". Games Workshop also released the limited edition "Gimli on Dead Uruk-hai" miniature to promote the event. ...more on Wikipedia about "The War of the Ring Online Campaign"
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* Elendor is the oldest and most popular Tolkien-based MUSH, based on Third Age Middle-earth with the timeframe set before the quest of the Ring. Knowledge of The Lord of the Rings is required. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tolkien-based MUSH"
ToME, or Tales (or Troubles) of Middle Earth, is a roguelike computer game created in 1998 by someone who identifies himself only as DarkGod. ToME is an Angband variant, originally based on the ZAngband 2.2.9a source code, which now differs greatly from it. ToME was also used as a base for many derivative games known as modules. Popular modules include FuryMod, Theme, and Annals of Ea. ...more on Wikipedia about "ToME (computer game)"
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