The Battle for Middle-earth

Publishers EA Games
Developers EA Los Angeles
Release date 2004
Genre Strategy
Game rating

Game Description

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth is a real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles for Microsoft Windows. It was released in December 6, 2004 and is based on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, in turn based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s original novel.

Download The Battle for Middle-earth

We might have the game available for more than one platform. The Battle for Middle-earth is currently available on these platforms:

Windows (2004)

The Battle for Middle-earth.rar (3.44GB)

How to play on Windows

  1. Click on the download button. It should redirect you to your download. Make sure you download the file properly and that your internet does not disconnect while downloading.
  2. Extract the “The Battle for Middle-earth” folder to your desktop.
  3. Open the “The Battle for Middle-earth” folder and then open the “Game Files” folder.
  4. Run the “Setup.exe” file and the game setup should launch. On higher resolution screens, you might not be able to see the full setup. In this case you can just press “Enter” on your keyboard to complete the setup. BFME 1 should begin installing on your computer.
  5. Once the game is installed, you can run the game from the desktop shortcut.
  6. Enjoy the game!

Additional files, patches and fixes

The Battle for Middle-earth Screenshots

Windows

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  1. I got the game to work perfectly yesterday First do not download from this site As mentioned it is not the full game and has a trojan malware.. Go out to the

    Revora Forumsand find the game there. Go to the download section. At the bottom of the patches is a sentence that if you are missing the original discs click here. Click on the here that is underlined it will take you to a link with a 4.0 gig ISO file. Be warned the first link has a trojan malware in it. Use the backup link under it which is clean. Download that file. Mount the iso using Daemon tools.. Run setup and install. Then go out to youtube and look for the battle for middle earth cd key. There is a 17 second video where the guy shares his cd key. when prompted to register choose register later and use the cd key. Last step go back to the Revora Forums and download the `1.06 all in one patch. Then download, unzip and run it. This patches the game from 1.0 to `1.03 then 1.05 and finally 1.06. It also has the no cd crack in it so the game does not need a cd to play. Only problem I had is the iso file only works 1 time and then the data deletes itself so dont ever uninstall it. But everything works great. Dont comment or ask me questions. I only check this site every year or so and wont be coming back to this game since I know how to get it no. Enjoy!!

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    • saw you wrote this 7 months ago, not sure if you found out already, but you can change it in the options.ini file, which is hidden in the Roaming folder on your pc. Just write %appdata% into the searchbar and you should be able to enter the hidden files. Unless you’ve marked them as not hidden.

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    • The filepath should look like this C:UsersComputerNameAppDataRoamingMy Battle for Middle-earth Files

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  5. It worked, then I updated, and now it gives the ‘you must run the game from its install directory’ message. Well, r.i.p.

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  9. Hello,

    I get the error ‘you must run the game from its install directory’?

    How do I fix this? It was working before…

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