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 Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion notes on the book and jacket design of the first editions of 1954-55. The book includes some previously unpublished material by Tolkien. It also reprints part of a 1951 letter in which Tolkien explicates, at some length, his conception and vision of "The Lord of the Rings". Reprinted for the first time since 1980, and corrected and expanded, is Tolkien's "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" (previously referred to as "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings"), an index of persons, places, and things designed to aid the translator in rendering Tolkien's work into foreign languages.