Battle for Middle-Earth 2 is still king among the older pre-HD era Lord of the Ring experiences for me. Just a solid RTS with a fantastic sense of scale, and captures the aesthetic of the movies well enough. Also any RTS with cavalry wedge formations with cool physics that blow away infantry units is a bonus.

You forgot the hands-down best and most thorough Lord of the Rings experience! Who wouldn’t want to roam an open world Middle-Earth?. You can explorethe depths of Moira, and literally hop down a well and end up in the waterworks. You can retrace the steps of the Hobbit and find the three turned-to-stone trolls, or go…

Battle for Middle Earth II. Yes.