

Soon, the time will come when the power of one may change the destiny of many. A human damned to immortality, bound forever by the power of the blood runes… Now, only a few years after the end of the Convocation, evil is back – stronger and more powerful than ever before – to finish what was started. All that was left were a few islands, connected by magic portals. Huge armies, bound by the the power of ancient runes, brought war and destruction to the lands that survived the initial onslaught. Continents shattered like glass, the pieces strewn about like leaves in the wind.

Entire countries were wiped out in the blink of an eye when the devastating power of the Elements was unleashed – Elements summoned by dark rituals. In their immeasurable greed and constant thirst for power, the thirteen most powerful Mages of all time doomed the land, hurling it into an endless spiral of chaos and despair. The game travels through many areas throughout Tolkien's Middle Earth, including The Pelennor Fields and Moria. Battles are turn-based, and let the gamer make different decisions on what they want to do to change the outcome of the battle. The game covers events in all three movies/books, mostly with references to major events shown through cut scenes, or the scenes from the movies with Ian McKellan's narration.Ī classic RPG game, The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age has gameplay elements similar to Final Fantasy, where you have a party of characters, each with a different set of skills and attributes, who gain levels, making them stronger as the game progresses.

There are seven playable characters in the game which have been created specifically for it, as well a small appearances by characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn, Eowyn, Faramir, and Gothmog. The game does relate to the movies by including scenes from all three movies, with new background speech by Ian McKellen (Gandalf). The Lord of the Rings:The Third Age introduces entirely new characters which aren't mentioned in the books or movies.
