Shadow of Mordor

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx

From what I've seen, all of the people who got a review copy had seen the movies (obviously), a few had read the books, the vast minority had read extended universe lore like the Silmarillion, but none had a historian's knowledge of it. Nobody was incredibly well versed in the lore, so it didn't really bother them.

That's not surprising. You cannot expect somebody who doesn't care about something to care about it.

However, to provide further context for the quoted post I was meaning that people might see the gameplay itself and not like it, thus deterring them from buying the game.

There will never be a concerted effort to devise a canonistic version of a Middle-earth video game.

Not by major developers, but there are some fan based projects underway that either have, or look likely to produce positive results.