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
Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings "The Lord of the Rings", an epic high fantasy novel by the British author J. R. R. Tolkien, set in his fictional world of Middle-earth, has been adapted several times. Three film adaptations of "The Lord of the Rings" have been made. The first was "The Lord of the Rings" (1978), by animator Ralph Bakshi, the first part of what was originally intended to be a two-part adaptation of the story. The second, "The Return of the King" (1980), was a television special by Rankin-Bass. The third was director Peter Jackson's "The Lord