DOWNLOAD: NEW VERSION LOTR-TW 3.0 RELEASED

[Architectum]

I just checked the ModDB versions and they seem to work fine. Maybe try downloading from ModDB and just one file at a time (ie. dl first file until it's complete, then try 2nd file after).

Hi CapnDan. Thanks for your reply. But how do i do that? As far as i see it there is only one download link and its simply click and download. As for that we tried dowloading it on different laptops aswell and both ended in the same result so i dont think its a computer problem but something wrong with the dowload mirror or maybe even the files have a error/corruption?? Anyways: pls tell me how to do that and big thanks in advance!

[CapnDan]

Hey Architectum,

So, the ModDB download page actually links automatically to a wide variety of different mirrors. When you click to download and you get the pop-up (Click to download lotrtw_3.02_Bugfix.zip if it doesn't start automatically or try another mirror.) you can click right there to try another mirror.

Also the descriptions on the download pages list a couple of seperate non ModDB download links, I'd be really surprised if none of those work (seriously there's a dozen different mirrors).

I did a quick check after your first message and just re-downloaded all three files needed for the most up-to-date version and everything worked fine for me (and I'm downloading from Western China where the internet is often largely blocked... ), so I'm not really sure what could be causing your trouble..

[Halvar von Flake]

Congratulations to releasing LotR TW 3.0!!! One of the best mods ever! Thanks a lot!

[Stratega]

Episode 1: To The Land of the Bree!




The Quest of the ring bearer has begun!To take the one ring and destroy him in the Mountain of Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed!
Gandalf the Grey instructed Frodo to go to the Bree-land, where they would meet in the inn of the Prancing Pony; Frodo along with his gardener Samwise Gamgee they go threw the lands of the Shire; however their journey will not be a easy one; the Nazgul, follow the too in hopes to retrieve the one ring back to its owner, The Dark Lord Sauron!

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The History of the One Ring


After its original forging (about SA 1600), Sauron wielded the Ring and battled the resisting Elves, creating the infamous War of the Elves and Sauron. At first the War went well for Sauron, as Eregion was destroyed along withCelebrimbor, the maker of the other Rings of Power. But later (about SA 1700) Tar-Minastir led a great army toMiddle-earth and, together with Gil-galad, destroyed Sauron's army, forcing Sauron to return to Mordor to regroup.
In SA 3261Ar-Pharazôn, the last and most powerful of the Kings of Númenor, landed at Umbar at the head of a gigantic army to do battle with Sauron, in contention of Sauron's self-proclaimed title as Overlord of Middle-Earth. The sheer size and might of the Númenórean army was enough to cause Sauron's forces to flee. Sauron surrendered to Ar-Pharazôn and was taken back to Númenor as a prisoner. Tolkien, in a letter written in 1958 (#211), wrote that the surrender was both "voluntary and cunning" so he could gain access to Númenor. Despite 1,500 years of war with Sauron, the Elves had not revealed to the Númenóreans the existence of the One Ring or any of the Rings of Power; thus, Ar-Pharazôn was unaware of it. Sauron was able to use the Númenóreans' fear of death as a way to turn them against the Valar, and toward worship of Melkor and human sacrifice.

Although Sauron's body was destroyed in the Fall of Númenor, his spirit was able to bear the Ring back to Middle-earth and he wielded it in his renewed war against the Last Alliance of Elves and Men between SA 3429 and 3441. Tolkien wrote, "I do not think one need boggle at this spirit carrying off the One Ring, upon which his power of dominating minds now largely depended" (letter #211).


The Ring was cut from Sauron's hand by Isildur at the slopes of Mount Doom, and he in turn lost it in the River Anduin (at the Gladden Fields) just before he was killed in an orc ambush (TA 2). Since it indirectly caused Isildur's death by slipping from his finger, it was known in Gondorian lore as Isildur's Bane.
The Ring remained hidden in the riverbed for almost two and a half millennia until a Stoorhobbit named Déagoldiscovered it while on a fishing trip. His friend and relative Sméagol stole the Ring and murdered Déagol. Sméagol was changed by the Ring’s influence over several centuries into the creature known as Gollum. The Ring, which Sauron had endowed with a will of its own, manipulated Gollum into settling in the Misty Mountains near Mirkwood, where Sauron was beginning to resurface. There he and it remained for nearly five hundred years, until the Ring abandoned him and fell off his finger as he was returning from killing a goblin.

As is told in The Hobbit, Bilbo found the Ring while he was lost in the caverns of the Misty Mountains, near Gollum's lair. When The Hobbit was written, Tolkien had not yet conceived of the Ring's sinister back-story. Thus, in the first edition of The Hobbit, Gollum surrenders the Ring to Bilbo as a reward for winning the Riddle Game. However, as Tolkien was conceiving the nature of the Ring, he realized that the Ring's grip on Gollum would never permit him to give it up willingly. Therefore, Tolkien revised this chapter in the second edition of The Hobbit: after losing the Riddle Game to Bilbo, Gollum went to get his "Precious" (as he always called it) so he could kill and eat him, but flew into a rage when he found it missing. Deducing that Bilbo had it from his last question— "What have I got in my pocket?"— Gollum chased him through the caves, not knowing that Bilbo had discovered the Ring's powers of invisibility and was following him to the cave's exit. Bilbo escaped Gollum and the goblins that inhabited the Misty Mountains by remaining invisible, but left that power out of the story he told the Dwarves he was travelling with. In fact, the version of the events that Bilbo told was the version of the first
edition of The Hobbit. Gandalf, who was also travelling with the Dwarves, later forced the real story out of Bilbo, and was immediately suspicious of the Ring's powers.Gollum, meanwhile, eventually left the Misty Mountains to track down and reclaim the Ring. He wandered for decades, and was captured when he went to Mordor. Here, he was interrogated and revealed the existence of Bilbo and the Shire.


In TA 3001, following Gandalf's counsel, Bilbo gave the Ring to his nephew and adopted heir Frodo. This first willing transfer of the Ring in its history sparked the chain of events which eventually led to its unmaking. It is one example of the frequent interplay between apparent chance and destiny, a ubiquitous theme in The Lord of the Rings.


By this time Sauron had begun to regain his power, and the Dark Tower in Mordor had been rebuilt. In order to prevent Sauron from regaining his Ring, Frodo and eight other companions set out from Rivendell for Mordor in an attempt to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom. During the quest, Frodo gradually became more and more susceptible to the Ring's power, and it became a heavy burden on him. When he and Sam discovered that Gollum was on their trail and "tamed" him into guiding them to Mordor, he began to feel a strange bond with the wretched, treacherous creature. Gollum gave in to the Ring's temptation, however, and betrayed them to the giant spider Shelob. Believing Frodo to be dead, Sam bore the Ring himself for a short time and experienced the temptation it induced, wearing it briefly twice, although he never succumbed to its seduction.


Sam rescued Frodo and returned the Ring to him but feared that the toll it was taking on his Master was too great, and it was; although Frodo and Sam, trailed by Gollum, eventually arrived at Mount Doom, Frodo was overcome by the Ring and claimed it as his own rather than destroy it. However, he was attacked by Gollum, who bit off the finger holding the Ring before falling into the fires of Mount Doom, finally destroying the Ring.

​Click on the title to see the episode!

[Cyrus Da Great]

Episode 1: To The Land of the Bree!

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[Liu Zheng]

Congrats guys, this mod is great. Is there a music pack available?

[Mikhail Stepanoff]

I just have no proper words to describe my feelings about this mod... It's great! It's totally amazing!! It's absolutely unbelievable!!! In addition, my mind has been completely blown when I saw the Moria... That's a really freaky cool!

And now I just don't know why we should play other games, if we have such "diamond"?

P.S. IMHO, LOTR-TW is much cooler than Third Age: Total War . Sorry, if I've hurt somebody by this words

[Ambrosius Aurelianus]

I'm so relieved that it installed correctly on the first time! Doesn't always happen, that. I just bought the RTW Anthology just on the hope that I'd be able to play this mod. To be safe, I uninstalled the vanilla RTW I already had and 3 other great mods (Extended Greek, EB, and Chivalry) and then followed the instructions in this thread to a T. I'm about 50 turns in to a Silvan game and I've only experienced one problem, a CTD after a victorious battle. Didn't set me back much, fortunately, because of a quicksave. Gotta say I'm loving it so far. For a long time I was bummed that I couldn't play TATW because my laptop can't handle Medieval II, but this seems like it'll satisfy me. Elven archers may be a little overpowered, but that does seem to be the elves' forte anyway, so it doesn't bother me. I'll just try not to fight *against* elves...

[pirateswillrule]

such an awsome mod wish i could play but i only have gold edition of RTW and im on a mac so i can't get alexander total war but it's still a great mod

[Celebandune]

I know this is not completely modfoldered, but I wanted to know if by installing this, I can still play RTW and the expansions and the mod-foldered mods I already have!
Thanks!

[Nelduin]

Sure, you can .

[Celebandune]

Thanks! =) Installed it, works perfectly and I can continue my RTW campaign with the Germans as well! Kudos to the releaser, will give Rep! =)

[Sandermatt]

I am trying to install it for my steam version of rome total war, what details do I have to take account of?

[Sandermatt]

I get an error "failed to find steam" (I cannot edit my postings yet, I need 25 postings for that)

[Sandermatt]

Not beeing able to edit postings is really annoying. I did the fix with the environement variable path. Now I get the error " "Problem checking steam application",
I can run the normal alexander total war, but not the mod.

[Sandermatt]

Running "lotr-tw launcher.bat" with administrator rights gives no error message, but nothing happens. I have no clue where the error comes from I am just sing google and trying to figure out things. maybe if I post everything I have doneyou can help me more efficiently. I bought rome total war and alexander on steam just for this mod as I didn't find where I bought alexander last time. I know I could also buy it over gamersgate, but buying the same game three times (and it's expansion) starts to add up.

[Sandermatt]

If I give steam.exe administrator rights I get the problem "problem starting up steam". The same happens if I try to run it with steam closed.

[Sandermatt]

I am an iddiot. I found the installation issues topic. Sorry for kinda spamming your thread with postings. Thanks for making this awesome mod. I had a lot of fun playing 2.0 together with my father. I am sure this new version will be even better.

[ruthless]

When I click the link for the bugfix to 3.02, nothing comes up on screen. The URL loads but nothing shows up. I've turned AdBlock off. Could this be a problem with Google Chrome or could someone give me a different download link for the bugfix?

[Macrath]

Downloading now, looking forward to a LOTR TW game other than TATW, should be interesting to compare a LOTR RTW - LORT MED2TW. Thnx for this mod can't wait to play.