War in Middle Earth is decent, although the combat gets boring and in the C64 version at least, if you let the computer decide the battle for you, your special characters would mysteriously die in battle. Also, there are a couple different versions I've seen floating around that have the same name but seem to play differently depending on the system.
I also liked the Hobbit text adventure. It's one of the best text adventures I've ever played, and I was impressed with its smart parser back in the day and its freedom and how the game could play differently each time you play.
I played the Commodore 64 versions for both.
There are a couple LotR rpgs. I think there's a console one (for SNES or Genesis, I think), and those DOS games that I still never got a chance to play based on the books.
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