Was jokingly called "The Two Hours" by some gamers, since most people were able to finish the game in a matter of hours.
John Rhys Davis claims in the in-game interview that he really enjoyed helping make this game, especially because he didn't need to get into the makeup which caused him severe allergic reactions while filming the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
The game follows the story of both the Fellowship of the Ring, and the Two Towers as narrated by Aragorn. There was a Fellowship of the Ring game that had been released at the same time as Jackson's film of the same name, it was produced by a company called Vivendi, and had the rights to the book source material. Whereas EA could only produce material from Jackson's films.
During the battle of Helm's Deep, the structure of Helm's Deep is vastly different to that of the film, as it appears there is a section of the wall that juts out perpendicular to the main part of the wall.