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: The Return of the King Ranger in Osgiliath, while in the Extended Edition Howard Shore appears as a celebrating soldier at Edoras. Additionally, four of the designers of The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game are featured as Rohirrim at the Pelennor. At the end of the film, during the closing credits, each cast member gets a sketched portrait morphed with the real photograph beside their name, which were sketched by Alan Lee, an idea suggested by Ian McKellen. As with all of Peter Jackson's movie adaptions of "The Lord of the Rings", many events, timelines, and geographic distances are compressed or simplified. Most