Härskarringen

Härskarringen is a Swedish text adventure for DOS by Nils Eng. It is the later, renamed form of his game Bilbo: to keep the story closer to Tolkien's books the hero was renamed Frodo, and the game took the Swedish title of The Lord of the Rings along with him.

Play is of the classic kind. A described location, commands typed in Swedish, and the long errand of carrying the Ring to Mount Doom. The parser expects Swedish, so a Swedish keyboard layout helps, since the letters å, ä and ö are needed for input.

The game belongs to the modest domestic scene of Swedish-language adventures that circulated outside ordinary publishers and are almost absent from international retro sites, where even their dating differs from source to source. It runs right in your browser here on OldGame.cz.