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This article is from the Computer games and MUDs with a Tolkien theme FAQ, by Fredrik Ekman ekman@lysator.liu.se with numerous contributions by others.

08 PD/Shareware p2 (Tolkien theme games)

Mario
Author: Harald Bornfleth (version 1) and Herbert Grosser (version 2)
Year: 1984
Version: 2 (1990)
System: Commodore 64
Type: Illustrated text adventure
Language: German
Covers: Chapters four and five in Book Two of "The Fellowship of the
Ring" (the passage through Moria)
Distribution: PD(?), the program disks of German magazine 64'er
Sonderheft 2/85 (version 1) and 52 (version 2)
Comment: This game confuses me. All names are changed as if it was a
parody, but no other attempts are made to be humourous. Nor can it
be an attempt to avoid copyright violation, since no secret is made
of where it was taken from. The overall quality of the game is
poor.

Der kleine Hobbit
Author: Michael Nickles
Year: 1984
System: Commodore 64
Type: Illustrated text adventure
Language: German
Covers: "The Hobbit"
Distribution: PD(?), the program disk of German magazine 64'er
Sonderheft 4/86
Comment: A much simplified German version of Melbourne House's The
Hobbit.

quiz
Produced by: The Regents of the University of California
Version: 5.1
System: Unix
Type: Quiz game
Distribution: Freeware, FTP from gatekeeper.dec.com:
/pub/BSD/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/games/quiz/
Comment: I believe that this game is distributed with Berkeley Unix. It
tests the player's knowledge on different subjects. One of the data
files that is distributed with the game contains some nations and
capitals in Middle Earth.

Bilbo
Author: Nils Eng
Year: 1989
Version: 2.1 (1993)
System: MS-DOS
Type: Text adventure with some graphics
Language: Swedish
Covers: "The Lord of the Rings"
Distribution: PD, FTP from ftp.gmd.de:
/if-archive/games/pc/education/bilbo.zip
Comment: Based on the "alternate reality" that Bilbo, rather than
Frodo, was chosen to take the Ring to Mordor. Not very good but
quite different.

The Pits of Angband
Author: Alexander Cutler, Andy Astrand, et al.
Year: 1991
Version: 2.7.8 (1995)
System: Unix, MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh
Name address: bbs.runet.edu (log on as "bbs")
Type: ASCII-based RPG (Amiga version has simple graphics)
Distribution: PD, FTP from ftp.cis.ksu.edu: /pub/Games/Angband/
Comment: Extended, and much more Tolkien-influenced, version of The
Dungeons of Moria. However, it seems more like an unordered
collection of monsters and artifacts from Tolkien's world than
anything else.

Tolkien's Middle Earth
Author: Massimo Campostrini <campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it>
Year: 1992
System: X Windows
Type: Module for multiplayer strategy game Xconq 5.5
Distribution: PD, FTP from ftp.uu.net:
/pub/games/xconq/contrib/tolkien.shar.Z. Also distributed with
Xconq 5.5.
Comment: A new version will be out for Xconq 7 and will cover current
shortcomings in the representation of Tolkien's world. The author
asks that you please contact him if you would like to help
designing 16x16 bitmap graphics for the forces of the game.

 

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