War of The Ring - Adaptations

Adaptations

Many adaptations of The Lord of the Rings include part of the War in some form or another.

There are several games that are patterned after the war: the Games Workshop 2005 Summer Online Campaign, for The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game; a board game developed by Nexus Editrice and published in the US by Fantasy Flight Games called War of the Ring (board game); a board and counter wargame called War of the Rings published by SPI in 1977; The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, a real-time strategy computer game published by Sierra Entertainment in 2003; and the Battle for Middle-earth series of real-time strategy games published by Electronic Arts in 2004 and 2006.

The War of the Ring is the title of the eighth volume of The History of Middle-earth. The War of the Ring was the working title of "Book 5" of 'The Lord of the Rings' (the first half of the eventual third volume). J. R. R. Tolkien wanted to use this as the overall title for the third volume of The Lord of the Rings, feeling that the title "The Return of the King" gave away too much of the plot.