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 of every "History of Middle-earth" volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Volume VI reads: The inscription in Volume VII reads: The inscription in Volume VIII reads: The inscription in Volume IX reads: "The History of The Lord of the Rings" reveals much of the slow, aggregative nature of Tolkien’s creativity. As Christopher Tolkien noted of the first two volumes, Tolkien had eventually brought the story up to Rivendell, but still “without any clear conception of what lay before him”. He also noted how, on the way, his father could get caught