The Shadows of Mordor

The Shadows of Mordor is an officially licensed J.R.R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings" text adventure game based on the second part of the trilogy - "The Two Towers".

You can select to play as either Frodo or Sam. The game follows the plot of the book closely and many locations have accompanying illustrations. Unusually for a text adventure game, the action happens in real time: if you sit there thinking of what to do next, things will happen in the game, e.g. creatures will move from location to location.

Preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring
Followed By The Crack of Doom
Added September 21, 2020
Published By Melbourne House
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
Developed By Beam Software Pty., Ltd.
Faceless Programmers' Corporation
Front Cover (United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Media (United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (United States) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (United States) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Spine/Sides (United States) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Media (United States) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Map (United States) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Manual (United States) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Spine/Sides (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Media (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Manual (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Manual (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (United States) (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (United States) (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Being followed by Smeagol (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
At the edge of a waterfall (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Tall cliff (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Dark tunnel (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Edge of a swamp (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Dead marshes (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
The tape version has different (and fewer) pictures (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Loading screen (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Game start (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Sam moves around of his own volition (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Nice cloak (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Dead (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Waterfall (128k version) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Gloomy valley (128k version) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
In a dark tunnel (128k version) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The title screen - The main heroes Frodo and Sam (DOS) from mobygames.com
Your starting location (if you choose to enable pictures) (DOS) from mobygames.com
The interface - You type in the bottom section and view events above (DOS) from mobygames.com
A different colored location - with a 4-color limit, it's actually not bad (DOS) from mobygames.com
Waterfall (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Text description (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Cliff (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Dark tunnel (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Swamp (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Mordor is ahead (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Title screen (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Options when starting a new game (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Lake (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
The text/command screen (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Aside from conventional typing, actions can also be choosen from menus. (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Dark tunnel (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Gloomy marsh (Macintosh) from mobygames.com

Year of Release:
1988

Genre(s):
Interactive Fiction Traditional

Graphic Style:
2D

Camera View:
First-Person

Control Type:
Text Parser

Setting/Theme:
Fantasy

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