This is the first part of Interplay's The Lord of the Rings series. The second part, The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers has also been released.
It was originally designed for Commodore 64. It was quite far advanced when the floor dropped from under the Commodore 64 market and it was decided to move on to the PC platform instead and the PC version was made in only nine months (which explains the many hideous bugs of that first version). Even though we will never see the Commodore 64 version, the music from it has somehow found its way to the Internet. It is interesting to note that the composer of the game's music, Charles Deenen, has never read a word of Tolkien. The theme is extremely similar to that of the movie Flesh + Blood although, according to Deenen, this is purely accidental.
