The Fellowship of the Ring for ZX Spectrum

The first half of the game, from the Shire to the ford below Rivendell. It is played on the keyboard only, commands are typed in English. When asked which hobbit you want to play, type the name (frodo, for instance). Positions are saved only to tape.

Game controls in browser

Click on the play ZX Spectrum game now button first to load the game, with the stop / start button you can pause the emulation.
The game is controlled using the keyboard or joystick, just like on an old computer.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Online version of The Fellowship of the Ring for ZX Spectrum. The Fellowship of the Ring is an illustrated text adventure based on the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, built in 1985 by the Australian studio Beam Software for the publisher Melbourne House. In Europe it was sold as Lord of the Rings: Game One, and it is the follow-up to the same studio's earlier The Hobbit. The player leads Frodo and his companions from the Shire through the Old Forest, Bree and Rivendell to the banks of the Anduin, giving orders to the party and in places taking the part of another character outright. The game loads as two separate halves, understands a vocabulary of some 800 words, and shipped with the complete paperback of the novel in the box.

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Lord of the Rings loading screen

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Choosing which hobbits to play

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Frodo's burrow

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The large grassy square in Michel Delving

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Part 2 opens on the stone highway by the Trollshaws

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Caught by the Black Riders on the highway: Sauron now has his ring

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Released in

1985

Publisher

Melbourne House

Developer

Beam Software

Platforms

Amstrad CPC, Apple II, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, PC DOS, ZX Spectrum (1985), Macintosh (1987)

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Online emulated version of The Fellowship of the Ring was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white display of its predecessor, the ZX81. The Spectrum was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987.
The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80 A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). The original model has 16 KB (16×1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM. Hardware design was by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research, and the outward appearance was designed by Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson.
Video output is through an RF modulator and was designed for use with contemporary television sets, for a simple colour graphic display. Text can be displayed using 32×24 characters from the ZX Spectrum character set or from a set provided within an application, from a palette of 15 shades: seven colours at two levels of brightness each, plus black. The image resolution is 256×192 with the same colour limitations.