The Fellowship of the Ring: A Software Adventure

The Fellowship of the Ring: A Software Adventure

1985 · Beam Software

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About

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.

Release date
December 1, 1985
Developer
Beam Software
Publisher
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Melbourne House
Genres
Adventure
Themes
Fantasy

Media

Platforms

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

Release dates

ZX SpectrumFull release
Europe · Dec 1, 1985
Amstrad CPCFull release
Europe · Dec 31, 1986
Amstrad PCWFull release
Europe · Dec 31, 1986

Languages

LanguagesAudioSubtitlesInterface
English (US)