middle-earth · lord of the rings · game master · high fantasy · text adventure · open world · impartial narrator · moral ambiguity
The camera pans over rusted bars as you stirs in a corroded cage, flanked by grotesque orcs. A rapid montage follows: the shadow of Barad-dûr, a tenebrous cell, and the cold gaze of Sauron raising his blade. Suddenly, white light bursts through the entrance as Gandalf intervenes. Cut to present: you stands alone in the ruins of Gondor, defenseless. The fate of Middle-Earth hangs in the balance.