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For the 1985 game, see The Fellowship of the Ring.

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring cover
Developers
Surreal Software
Publishers
Black Label Games
Universal Interactive
Engines
Riot Engine
Release dates
Windows September 24, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 59
IGDB 51
Taxonomy
Series Middle-earth
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) on IGDB
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) guide on StrategyWiki
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The Hobbit 1982
The Fellowship of the Ring 1985
The Shadows of Mordor 1987
J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth 1988
The Crack of Doom 1989
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I 1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan 1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II 1992
The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) 2002
The Return of the King 2003
War of the Ring 2003
The Hobbit (2003) 2003
The Battle for Middle-earth (series)
The Lord of the Rings Online 2007
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest 2009
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North 2011
Lego Middle-earth (series)
Guardians of Middle-earth 2012
Middle-earth: Shadow (series)
Journeys in Middle-earth 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 2023
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria 2023

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 4 DRM.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Essential Improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 (US copy only) can be downloaded here

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Change game aspect ratio.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Force off through graphics card control panel.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
The game does not behave correctly over 60 FPS, See High frame rate issues.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
enabled by default
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
one slider for music and one slider for effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Russian

Issues fixed

Black Screen on startup

Use 3D Analyse[citation needed]
  1. Download and install 3D Analyze version 2.36 : download
  2. Run as administrator if installed in Program Files in Windows Vista or above.
  3. Select Fellowship.exe in the game directory.
  4. check LOTR texture fix.
  5. Start the game.

Notes

If the black screen still occur, try checking force windowed mode.
The save batch file button will create a .bat shortcut for the game.

High frame rate issues

FPS over 60 causes issues in combat, dialogues and cutscenes and the mouse in menus is broken over 75 FPS.[citation needed]
Limit the Frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed]
Set refresh rate to 60hz[citation needed]

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution.
Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Single-pass, multi-texture, and hardware T&L support
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References