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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE RING
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FAQ/Walkthrough
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Author: Barry Willemsen

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Table of Contents
Legal Stuff & Contact Info
Version History
General Information
The Interface
5.1) The Menus
5.2) The Game Interface
Gameplay
6.1) Good... or Evil?
6.2) General Controls
6.3) Resource Management
6.4) General Hints'n Tips
6.5) Fate
6.6) Places of Power
Playing the Free Peoples
7.1) Gameplay differences
7.2) Good Buildings
7.3) Good Technologies
7.4) Good Units
7.5) Good Heroes
7.6) Good Fate Powers
7.7) Good-Only Strategies
7.8) Good Campaign
Playing the Minions of Sauron
8.1) Gameplay differences
8.2) Evil Buildings
8.3) Evil Technologies
8.4) Evil Units
8.5) Evil Heroes
8.6) Evil Fate Powers
8.7) Evil-Only Strategies
8.8) Evil Campaign
Credits

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Copyright 2004 Barry Willemsen
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Before you're reading anything of the FAQ, please read this and make sure you
agree with the terms and conditions included in the text below:

All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their
respective trademark and copyright holders. This may not be reproduced under
any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on
any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written
permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any
public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright.

In other words, just mail me for permission before placing this FAQ or pieces
of it on your site. You can find my e-mail adress in the Contact Info section
below.

Contact Info
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If you discover a major error in this FAQ, would like to submit a strategy that
isn't included in here, or have a question about the game that isn't answered
in this FAQ, you can e-mail me at the following adress:

kryptondragon@hotmail.com

Of course, there are some restrictions on e-mailing me:

- Don't send me SPAM
- Make sure the subject line is recognizable. Weird topics will not be read
and deleted immediately.
- E-mails with questions that are answered (or soon will be) in the FAQ will
not be replied to.
- Don't ask for cheats or any other strategies: all tactics I know are in
this FAQ
- If you have negative things to say about this FAQ you can always send them
to me, as long as the mails remain polite and have a normal topic. I'll
rewrite some parts of the FAQ if I have to, and credit the one who has
located the error in the Credits section.

If you have some original strategies to submit or you can tell me easier ways
to beat the campaign-scenarios, e-mails will be gladly accepted. I will put it
in a highlighted spot with your name above it in the following update. Just
remember that e-mails probably won't be replied to the first day afterwards. I
still have lots of things to do for myself and I won't be able to read my mail
every day.


By the way, my FAQ is authorized to be on the following sites:

- GameFAQs (www.gamefaqs.com)
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- Cheat Channel (www.cheatchannel.com)
- Cheatbook (www.cheatbook.de)
- Neoseeker (www.neoseeker.com)
- IGN Faqs (www.faqs.ign.com)
- DLH (www.dlh.net)
- Cheat Happens (www.cheathappens.com)

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Version 0.6 - Posted on March 5th, 2004
Got the main part of this FAQ up. The aspects of playing the good
side are entirely up.

Version 0.8 - Posted on March 6th, 2004
The first part of the Evil section is completed. I'm still
having some trouble thinking of strategies for the final levels
of the Evil campaign. Enhanced unit section a bit by typing up
population costs. Also corrected some minor errors.

Version 0.9 - Posted on March 23rd, 2004
This FAQ is just about completed. I only need to add walkthroughs
for the last four levels of the Evil Campaign. Might take a
while, though, my life's been pretty busy.

Version 1.0 - Posted on April 4th, 2004
Complete FAQ! I also got the first strategy contribution up,
you can find it in the Evil-Only Strategies section. Credit goes
to SThomas1317 for that.

Version 1.1 - Posted on April 13th, 2004
I got new contributions from Gene Y. AKA grenka. Also expanded
the Places of Power section by request of Manuel Vega 182002.
Added the ASCII art on top of this FAQ.

Version 1.2 - Posted on June 30th, 2004
New contributions by SThomas1317 and Aragorn1913 for the evil
side. Also corrected a mistake in the evil section which was
spotted by Aragorn1913.

Version 1.3 - Posted on August 13th, 2004
A small but good change. I forgot to mention that you can review
all dialogue from the same menu where you can access the hints
and objectives from. Thankz to Tyler AKA Morgawr2 for pointing
this out. Had a new strategy added thanks to seaspray_68. Also
found some small typos and corrected them.

IMPORTANT: I HAVE A NEW E-MAIL ADRESS. DO NOT SEND ANYTHING TO
THE OLD ONE ANYMORE COZ' THEY WON'T BE READ. PLEASE, HELP ME
WITH THIS.

Version 1.4 - Posted on August 20th, 2004
Got new contributions from Ryan, and Christo Acheson also known
as seaspray_68. The first contributed a strategy for the good
side, the second had a useful tip for those struggling to defend
the catapult in "The Siege of the Iron Hills". Thanks, guys.

Version 1.5 - Posted on September 26th, 2004
My copy was borrowed by a friend so some of the new contributions
have not been tested. Please mail me if they're false. Anyway, I
would like to thank Telcontar590 for contributing a Good and Evil
side strategy, Francis Estoesta for helpful tips with cinematics,
and Scott McCall for contributing a Good Side strategy to place
in the FAQ. Thanks, everyone.

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First off, this is my very first FAQ, so don't think it will be wonderful. I'm
just trying to get gamers through the game with simple strategies, consisting
mostly of guerilla-attacks and Hit & Run tactics. It's supposed to get people
through the scenarios step-by-step. The game can be hard at some points, even
in Easy Mode. And since there were no FAQs contributed yet when I started
this, it seemed that I had nothing to lose...

"The War of the Ring" was developed by Liquid Entertainment and published by
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (Vivendi Universal Games). It is a game based on the
popular "The Lord of the Rings" series, waging war in Middle-Earth on either
side of the field. It is very entertaining, though a bit hard on some points.

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5.1) THE MENUS
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Once you start the game, you have several things to choose from in the main
menu. These things are: Single Player; Multiplayer; Load; Options; and Quit.

Single Player
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Starts a new, single-player game. When you select this option a new screen
appears with again several options to choose from:

GOOD CAMPAIGN: Command the Free Peoples of Middle-Earth and help them
destroying the One Ring in a series of scenarios.
EVIL CAMPAIGN: Command the Minions of Sauron and lead them to victory,
so Middle-Earth will forever be under Sauron's rule.
SKIRMISH: Start a quick single-player skirmish game against one or
more computer-controlled opponents.
TUTORIAL: Play through four tutorials teaching you the basics of this
game; three for the Free Peoples and one for the Minions.
BACK: Return to the Main Menu.

Multiplayer
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Starts a new multiplayer game. This will give you an opportunity to compete
with up to 8 other players in a LAN game over the Internet through GameSpy or
at a specific IP address. The following game types are available (this goes
for Single-Player skirmish games as well):

RAZING: Here you have to destroy all your enemy buildings (including
Towers and War Posts) to win. It doesn't matter how many
units your enemy has alive; razing the buildings will gain
you victory.

SURVIVAL: This mode forces you to totally destroy your enemy: all of
his buildings AND units must be crushed in order to be
victorious. If all buildings of a player are destroyed in
this mode, a timer appears. The player without buildings
has to construct a Stronghold (for the Free Peoples) or a
Goblin Hovel (for the Minions of Sauron) before this timer
runs out or his units will be revealed on the map. If he
succeeds, his units become shrouded in the Fog of War once
again.

FAMINE: Each player in this mode starts of with a set amount of
resources, and resource collecting is turned off. In order
to win you have to destroy ALL enemy buildings and units.
This is a Deathmatch-kind of game.

CONTROL: This is the only mode that is limited by time. Now, players
have to control Places of Power to be the winner. Each
Place of Power in possession gains the controlling player
an amount of points. When the timer ends, the player with
the most points wins. If all other players are eliminated,
you'll get an immediate win. This also applies to situations
where one player has more than 50% of the points that can be
collected.