I've always been quite intrigue by the LOTR series. Aside from that, I am a big RTS fan, and I almost got the game when it first came out. Eventually, I got it for $9.99 after two years it came out.
This what happens when you take one the world's best fantasy stories ever into a strategy game. A great innovation to strategy games, you don't need to spend hour building your army unit by unit, ...