War in Middle Earth is a real-time strategy game released for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple IIGS, and Atari ST in 1988 by Virgin Mastertronic on the Melbourne House label.

All the action happens simultaneously in game world and places could be seen from the map or at the ground level.

The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #147 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.

's review was more positive, only criticizing an anticlimactic ending to "an otherwise impressive game" that was "faithful to the Middle Earth story line".

[7] The Spanish magazine Microhobby valued the game with the following scores:[8] Originality: 80% Graphics: 70% Motion: - Sound: 50% Difficulty: 100% Addiction: 80%