For every heroic moment of Sam helping Frodo, or Legolas shooting arrows, there's an equally awesome scene of Orc armies powering over Middle-earth ... the nearby Laketown where he is killed ...

It’s taken us over five hours to get this far, and whether or not you feel the journey has been a satisfying return to Middle-Earth ... with Smaug laying waste to Laketown, with Bard stepping ...

Tolkien’s Middle Earth. In the land of elves ... Thorin was willing to go to war with the people of Laketown, the elves of Mirkwood, armies of orcs, and even his own kin, to keep the Arkenstone ...

(iPhone users will get to experience "most" of Google's version of Middle-earth, but not the games). Eventually, new locations will be added, including Lake Town and the Lonely Mountain ...