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The Fellowship of the Ring: A Software Adventure

1985 · BBC Microcomputer System · Commodore C64/128/MAX · ZX Spectrum · Mac · DOS · Apple II · Adventure

56IGDB player score
6 ratings

About this game

The Fellowship of the Ring is an interactive fiction (with graphics) game based on the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, describing the efforts of the Hobbits Frodo, Pippin, and Sam and their quest to bring the ring to Mount Doom. The game is divided into two parts (represented by two separate executable files: DOS version). The first part starts with Frodo at his home in the Shire, where eventually you will team up with the other Hobbits Pippin and Sam, as well as Aragorn and Gandalf. From meeting with Tom Bombadil, the Green Knight, the Balrog and ends with the Nazgul River incident. The second part of the game starts with forming of the fellowship, thus adding new team members: Boromir, Legolas, etc., until the end of the novel.

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Game facts

Release date

Dec 1, 1985

Developer

Beam Software

Publisher

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Melbourne House

Platforms

BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Mac, DOS, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW

Genres

Adventure

Themes

Fantasy

Game modes

Single player

Franchise

The Lord of the Rings

Perspective

First person, Text

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