The Lord of the Rings: War in the North that co-operation amongst traditionally antagonistic races is such a major theme in the novels, they wanted to replicate it in the game. Having experimented with two, three and four-player co-op, they ultimately decided to go with three-player, thus mirroring the classic triptych in the novels; Man (Aragorn), Elf (Legolas) and Dwarf (Gimli). Lead designer Andre Maguire explained that "how" players experienced co-op mode was equally as important as them simply playing it; However, according to Tomandl, the focus on co-op gameplay did not mean single-player mode was neglected; "War in the North" is the first "Lord of the Rings" game
The History of The Lord of the Rings Númenor), a draft of the Drowning of Anadûnê, and the only extant account of Tolkien's fictional language Adûnaic. Some paperback editions of the fourth volume, retitled "The End of the Third Age", include only the materials for "The Lord of the Rings". The original idea was to release "The History of The Lord of the Rings" in three volumes, not four. When "The Treason of Isengard" was first published in paperback Volume 8 was to be called "Sauron Defeated" and was to be the last volume. The titles of the volumes derive from discarded titles for the separate books of