The Lord of the Rings Online
2007 · Turbine, later Standing Stone Games
Source book
- The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien
Your own character, walking through the war of the book.
Platforms
Windows, OS X (formerly)
Fidelity
A 2007 MMO set in Tolkien's Middle-earth during The Lord of the Rings. The epic story runs alongside the Fellowship's war and later past the fall of Sauron. Launched on Windows; OS X support did not last.
Read first?
01
When to read first
Read the novel first if you have not. The main story follows that war with your character beside it, which is a thorough spoiler for the book.
02
When playing first is fine
Reasonable if you have read the book, or if you only know the films and have decided the novel is not on your list. The films are a different telling of the same war.
03
Why
An original hero does not make this an original plot. The book is the spine of the epic quests.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Online
The call above is an editorial reading of that public page. If the page and this note disagree, believe the page.
