Electronic Arts is looking to give gamers a crack at the forces of darkness in Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, the first role-playing game set in Tolkien's Middle Earth. Rings fans have already hit the jackpot with this baby.

Spanning the whole epic high-fantasy trilogy, The Third Age fuses classic RPG elements with the runaway-Balrog success of recent Lord of the Rings mania. You won't play as the primary characters, but the course of the overall fight matches that portrayed in the films. It also offers encounters with principal players such as Gandalf, Aragorn, and Legolas (who occasionally show up as party members... or as enemies!).