The Lord of the Rings: Gollum lets you hide in the shadows and strike

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In fantasy, being the heroic wizard or knight is where the action is. But sometimes you get a different perspective by being the cowardly thing that scurries around in the shadows.

We’ll see players enjoy this latter perspective in the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. It’s a new video game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, and it’s in the works at developer Daedalic Entertainment and its owner and co-publisher Nacon. They have pledged to deliver a game that honors the vision of Tolkien.

But instead of playing as the valiant Aragorn or wise Gandalf, you play as Gollum, a creature who becomes important only as a kind of middleman courier for one of the greatest treasures of Middle-earth. In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, we see the perspective of the heroes of the villainous Gollum, who is happy to steal and murder in the darkness. But this game makes you play as the anti-hero Gollum.

I got a brief look at the action-adventure title via a preview demo with Daedalic. Gollum is the same immoral creature that we’ve come to expect from the pathetic character’s backstory. But we learn that it’s through his own agency that Gollum becomes so important a character, struggling between light and darkness, that makes his tale with the epic story so interesting.

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I hope we’ll find out soon whether Daedalic can meet the expectations of fans who have been anxiously wanting to play the game in spite of three delays in the launch