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The Hunt for the Ring

Author: Sam Ruby
Year: 1987
Version: 6/16/88, 11/20/90 (ProDOS 40-column)
System: Apple II
Type: Text adventure
Covers: Loosely based on parts of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Distribution: PD
Availability: Downloadable (see below)
Licensed: No

The Hunt for the Ring is an Eamon game (number 127 in the Eamon Adventurer's Guild's list). This game completely rewrites Tolkien's story. You (the hero) must set out on a quest to find the One Ring. This is part five of The Lord of the Rings series.

Personal evaluation: Sam Ruby butchers Tolkien again. Enough said.

Screen shot

"Githoneil a Elbereth!" indeed.

Net resource

• Download the game (DOS 3.3 version, there is also an information file)
• Download the game (emulator disk image)

See also

• Eamon Tolkien games
• The Forest of Fear
• The Iron Prison
• The Lord of the Rings (Eamon series)
• The Mines of Moria
• Quest of Erebor
• The Ring of Doom