The Lord of the Rings: War in the North | A LOTR Dark Alliance

War in the North is a bit of an oddity, coming one console too late for its style, in a setting that only just got permission to use its full material, and from a studio about to be merged into another. Even as a Tolkien mega-fan and a kid who would claim Champions of Norrath and Dark Alliance (also by the same studio) as my favorite games just a few years prior, I liked it but didn't love it. But revisiting it, it is an amazingly interesting marriage between the movie license and the book license we haven't seen since! With fan favorite characters and book moments brought to life and canonized in the cinematic universe.

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A major inspiration to replay this game and make this video was ‪@IFinishedAVideoGame‬'s fantastic LOTR Video Game Retrospective video. So please check that out to learn even better why War in the North sticks out!    • Lord of the Rings Video Game Retrospective...  

The art I use in the transition sections are official concept art and models of War in the North by Jason Kim, Ilya Nazarov, Steve Firchow, and Philip Straub. I also use Magic the Gathering and LOTR: The Trading Card Game cards/art, screenshots from LOTRO, and art of the Barrow Downs Wight by Michael Herring.

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Chapters:
00:00 A History
04:36 At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
12:34 Combat & The Hero Feeling
18:37 Ruins of a Kingdom
30:20 Fog on the Barrow Downs
35:58 The Last Homely House & Lore/Voice Acting
43:46 The Window on the North
55:09 Flies, Spiders, & Dragons
1:04:33 The Two Sieges
1:15:07 A Conspiracy
1:19:40 A Conclusion