War in Middle Earth
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. The game combines both large scale army unit level and small scale character level. All the action happens simultaneously in game world and places could be seen from the map or at the ground level.
War in Middle Earth
- Date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Krome Studios Melbourne
- Language
- English
- Genre
- real-time strategy
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
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. The game combines both large scale army unit level and small scale character level. All the action happens simultaneously in game world and places could be seen from the map or at the ground level.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for War in Middle Earth. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q1359413
In this article
The object
The object
Individual characters can also be seen in larger battles (in which they either survive or die). If the battle is less than 100 units, approximately, it can be watched on ground level. Otherwise it will be only displayed numerically. On ground level characters can acquire objects and talk with non-player characters (such as Radagast or Tom Bombadil).
Key facts
Key facts
• Title — War in Middle Earth • Developer — Synergistic Software • Publisher — Melbourne House • Designer — Mike Singleton Alan Clark Robert Clardy • Engine — World Builders • Genre — Real-time strategy • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — MS-DOS, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS • Illustration — Gondorian soldiers and the city of Minas Tirith
History of the object
Dated record
History of the object
The full dated record · 2 entries
1988
War in Middle Earth published.
1988
War in Middle Earth is recorded as published in 1988.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- Australia
Named but not plotted · 1
War in Middle Earth is associated with Australia.
Country
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #147 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3 out of 5 stars. Computer Gaming World gave the game a mixed review, noting that, although it faithfully recreates the events of the books, genuine strategy is lacking and the game plays very similarly on subsequent playthroughs. Compute!s review was more positive, only criticizing an anticlimactic ending to "an otherwise impressive game" that was "faithful to the Middle Earth story line". The Spanish magazine Microhobby valued the game with the following scores: Originality: 80% Graphics: 70% Motion: - Sound: 50% Difficulty: 100% Addiction: 80%
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Collectables
20,755 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- War Final AssaultWork
- War for the OverworldWork
- War GodsWork
- War HospitalWork
- War in RussiaWork
- War in the GulfWork
- War in the South PacificWork
- War Inc.Work
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a copy of War in Middle Earth?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.