The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game) the country's 91st best-selling computer game during this period. Although the planned "Hobbit" game, "Middle-earth Online" and "War of the Ring" were all ultimately released, the two sequels in the "Lords of the Rings" trilogy were not. The first game, an adaptation of "The Two Towers", was renamed "The Lord of the Rings: The Treason of Isengard" (a discarded title for the original "Two Towers" novel), so as not to cause confusion with EA's 2002 "Two Towers" game. "Treason" was first announced on April 24, 2003, with plans for a non-playable demo at E3 in May. The game was being
The Lord of the Rings May 2007. The enormous popularity of Tolkien's work expanded the demand for fantasy fiction. Largely thanks to "The Lord of the Rings," the genre flowered throughout the 1960s, and enjoys popularity to the present day. The opus has spawned many imitators, such as "The Sword of Shannara", which Lin Carter called "the single most cold-blooded, complete rip-off of another book that I have ever read". "Dungeons & Dragons", which popularized the role-playing game (RPG) genre in the 1970s, features many races found in "The Lord of the Rings," most notably halflings (another term for hobbits), elves (who are distinct from