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The Fellowship of the Ring: A Software Adventure

First release
Dec 1985
Developer
Beam Software
Genres
Adventure · Fantasy

The Fellowship of the Ring is an interactive fiction (with graphics) game based on the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, describing the efforts of the Hobbits Frodo, Pippin, and Sam and their quest to bring the ring to Mount Doom. The game is divided into two parts (represented by two separate executable files: DOS version). The first part starts with Frodo at his home in the Shire, where eventually you will team up with the other Hobbits Pippin and Sam, as well as Aragorn and Gandalf. From meeting with Tom Bombadil, the Green Knight, the Balrog and ends with the Nazgul River incident. The second part of the game starts with forming of the fellowship, thus adding new team members: Boromir, Legolas, etc., until the end of the novel.

Also known as Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - Game One, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - A Software Adventure

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Release dates
ZX Spectrum
Dec 1985
Amstrad CPC
1986
DOS
1986
All 8 release dates
Commodore C64/128/MAX
1986
Amstrad PCW
1986
Apple II
1986
BBC Microcomputer System
1986
Mac
1987
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Text, First person
Keywords
interactive fiction, based on - book, licensed game, text adventure

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Languages

  • Englishinterface
IGDB · recorded 12 Sept 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 12 Sept 2026