The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game) game was a financial success, selling over one million units across all platforms, it was heavily outsold by EA's "The Two Towers", which sold almost four million units. Vivendi initially planned to make two sequels to the game, covering all three books in the trilogy, but the first sequel, called "The Lord of the Rings: The Treason of Isengard" (a discarded title for Tolkien's "Two Towers" book), developed by Surreal Software and slated for release in late 2003, was cancelled late in development. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is an action-adventure game played from a
The History of The Lord of the Rings Ring"; and Book VI, "The End of the Third Age". The title "The Return of the Shadow" was a discarded title for Volume I. Three of the titles of the volumes of "The History of The Lord of the Rings" were also used as book titles for the seven-volume edition of "The Lord of the Rings": "The Treason of Isengard" for Book III, "The War of the Ring" for Book V, and "The End of the Third Age" for Book VI. There is an inscription in Fëanorian characters (Tengwar, an alphabet Tolkien devised for the High-Elves) on the title pages