The Games of Middle Earth is a boxed trilogy of hex-and-counter board wargames that Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) released in 1977, all based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings under a license from the Tolkien Estate. The set holds War of the Ring, which covers the whole conflict from the Fellowship leaving Rivendell to the last battle at the Black Gates of Mordor, Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith, and Sauron, which recreates the battle of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men at the end of the Second Age. Each game has its own map and counters. Orders alone put it at the top of SPI's Top Ten list four months before release, and it stayed the company's best seller for almost two years.
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published by Simulations Publications, Inc. in 1977
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