In 1987, Melbourne House released War in Middle-earth, a turn-based strategy game, followed by its sequel Riders of Rohan. A BBC Micro text adventure released around the same time was unrelated to Melbourne's titles except for the literary origin. They went on to release 1986's The Fellowship of the Ring, 1987's The Shadows of Mordor, and 1990's The Crack of Doom. In 1982 began a series of licensed LoTR graphical interactive fiction games with The Hobbit, based on the book of the same name.