War in Middle Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth
Developer(s)	Melbourne House
Publisher(s)	Melbourne House
Designer(s)	Mike Singleton, Alan Clark, Robert Clandy
Platform(s)	MS-DOS, C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST
Release	1988
Genre(s)	real-time strategy
Mode(s)	Single player

Gondorian soldiers and the city of Minas Tirith

J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth is a real-time strategy game released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST in 1988 by Australian company Melbourne House.

The game combined both large scale army unit level and small scale character level. All the action happened simultaneously in game world and places could be seen from the map or at the ground level. Individual characters could also be seen in larger battles (in which they either survived or died — Gandalf alone could easily defeat a hundred orcs). If the battle is quite small (less than 100 units approximately) it can be watched on ground level. Otherwise it will be only displayed numerically. On ground level characters could acquire objects and talk with computer controlled friendly characters (such as Radagast or Tom Bombadil).

A sequel, J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan, was later released in 1991.

External links

• J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth at MobyGames
• War in Middle Earth at World of Spectrum
• The Unofficial War in Middle Earth Fan Page