Lord of the Rings game engine

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Intro cutscene

Talking with Old Gaffer

Movie cutscene

Hobbit holes

All screenshots

Rewrite of the game engine for very famous Lord of the Rings Game by Interplay. The game captures the atmosphere of Middle Earth very well and it is regarded as one of the best Tolkien inspired games ever. It is an old-fashioned RPG covering most of the book events but adds more quests. I like that the game gives the player a lot of freedom and I believe the replayability is high. Check the complete walkthough by Dront to get the an idea how huge the game is.

The Fellowship of the Ring (vol. 1) support is effectively complete (some missing features are not essential for the enjoyment of the game). The Two Towers (vol. 2) playable but not fully tested. Some quests are likely broken. I do not know if the game is winnable in the current shape (you can always run the game in debug mode to skip over broken areas).

I recommend an excellent review on CRPG addict (the game ranks 35th out of 437 reviewed games) P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | Won | Rating

Contact the Author

See my web page for the contact information. Patches, comments and bug reports are always welcomed.

Downloads

• Git repository: git clone http://git.wonderland.cz/lotr
• Current version: lotr-0.7.0.tgz
• Windows binary including runnable demo and Two Towers: lotr.zip
• Paragraph texts: para.dat (put into directory /usr/local/share/games/lotr/)
• Paragraph texts: Two Towers para2.dat (put into directory /usr/local/share/games/lotr/towers/)
. In text format para2.txt.
• Older precompiled binaries:
  • Precompiled demo (with demo game data) for Linux: lotr-demo.tgz
  • Newer demo version for Linux amd64: lotr-demo64.tgz
  • Mac OSX binary: LotrGameEngine.dmg (courtesy of Elf)
  • Amiga OS4 binary: lotr.lha (courtesy of SpotUP)
  • Pandora binary: LotR.pnd (courtesy of EvilDragon)

Links

• The Underdogs game entry.
• Complete walkthough by Dront
• The Tolkien Games site game entry
• The Linux Game Tome game entry
• Paul Jaquays page (the game designer)
• Game data

News

• 2021/11/08 Official MS Windows binaries relesed (download here).
• 2021/11/08 New version 0.7.0 released. Quality of life for Windows platform.
• 2009/08/23 New version 0.6.5 released. Bugfixes.
• 2009/02/21 New version 0.6.4 released. Many bugfixes, much improved GUI.
• 2009/02/15 Homepage moved to wonderland.cz.
  New version 0.6.3 released — sound system ported to SDL_mixer, code cleanups, gui tweaks, in-game spot code listing.
• 0.6.0 Python scripting support for user enhancements.
• 0.5.10 CD version support (including video cutscene player).
  Display paragraph texts from para.dat instead of just number.
• 0.5.5 Added experimental (unplayable) support for The Two Towers.