Middle Earth (board game)

Games of Middle Earth is a trilogy of board games published by Simulations Publications, Inc. in 1977 that are all based on the epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.

The boxed set contains three games In 1976, SPI was granted a license by the Tolkien Estate to produce wargames based on Lord of the Rings.

[1] It subsequently produced three wargames in 1977: War of the Ring, Sauron, and Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith.

[2] In White Dwarf #11, Bill Seligman called this product "one of the most artistic games [SPI has] ever published, and one of the easiest to learn."

[3] Writing for the Dutch games review site Casus Belli, Frank van den Bergh liked War of the Ring, but called both Sauron and Gondor "clearly lesser games".