Designed by Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi, the game was initially published by Cubicle 7 in 2011 under the title The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild.

During the first edition run, the base game and some of the supplements have been released in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

[2][3] In 2019 the company experienced a contractual issue preventing them from producing the game[4] and on 27 November 2019 they announced that they would cease publishing both The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-earth.

On 27 September 2020, Nepitello, when interviewed by Free League Publishing, announced that the second edition would be set in the Eriador region of Middle Earth.

[6] The second edition was initially released using the crowdfunding site Kickstarter and included a starter set focused on The Shire.