Between its departure from the action-heavy tone of the LOTR series to its focus on an antagonistic minor character, the future of Lord of the Rings: Gollum appears to be lost in its own caves.As the Hobbits celebrate Bilbo Baggins’ eleventy-first birthday, he gifts his nephew Frodo his inheritance – including his most precious belonging – a gold ring. The game's first trailer showed Monolith's character design will be extremely faithful to the movie version of Gollum, but other characters like Gandalf look nothing like the LOTR movies.
Because of the game's setting, it is highly unlikely that it will feature the series' most famous hobbit characters like Frodo or Sam. With more details becoming public as 2022 begins, the flaws in Gollum's concept are beginning to show. In a series that has established itself, in film and video games, as a reliable source of excitement, action, and epic war, making a video game about a tiny, groveling former hobbit hiding in caves feels very much out of place. Their journey brought them through a sprawling, cinematic open-world and pit them against fearsome Uruk captains in exciting battle clashes, an experience very much synonymous with the Lord of the Rings movie series. Meanwhile, the first trailer for Lord of the Rings: Gollum focused on his personality struggle. The Middle-earth games were broad-spanning action epics, following the Gondorian Ranger Talion and the Elf Lord Celebrimbor as they cut a swath through Sauron's legions of evil.
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