The Lord of the Rings - Total War mod

LOTR-TW is a Total Conversion for Alexander TW based on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, focused to recreate the epic battles seen in the movies, It has a complete Middle Earth map, from Harad to Forodwaith, and from Grey Heavens to Rhun, Fully customised cities like Minas Tirith on Battle and Campaign map, a few Historical Battles, like the Last Alliance, Battle for Helm's Deep, and Pelennor Fields, and some more about the Fellowship of the Ring.
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Factions:

Gondor
Rohan
Isengard
Mordor
Easterlings
Haradrim
Galadhrim Elves
Noldor Elves
Silvan Elves
Dwarven Clans
Men of Dale
Orc Rabbles
Dunlendings
Free Peoples

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Main Forum:

Lotr-tw.net 
Twcenter.net 

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How to play :

.You ABSOLUTELY need Alexander Total War! , if you do not have it, you wont be able to play!!!!

. Install Patch 2.0  to your Rome Total War folder
MIRROR 1: Moddb.com
MIRROR 2: Strategyinformer.com
MIRROR 3: Files.filefront.com

.Install Patch (2.08c) to the same Rome Total War folder, and a Shortcut will appear in your Desktop, execute it to play!
MIRROR 1: Moddb.com
MIRROR 2: Strategyinformer.com
MIRROR 3: Filefront.com

STEAM:

Tutorial on how to install the game on Steam, follow it piece by piece and you shall not have any problems.

Twcenter.net

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The Team:

Mod Leader, modeler, Skinner:                        Wlesmana
Second in lead, Scripter, Gameplay changes:      Bardo (Tirolalira)
New Cities and buldings:                                  Seth Krn3ll

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Credits

- Wlesmana for this awesome Mod and most of the hard work, and Cyen for the forum support.
- Bardo for keep releasing patches.
- Seth Krnell for the buildings, the custom cities, and all the research to make them possible.
- Tranky for the help with testing and balancing, and the leading of spanish community.
- Falcons1988 for the new sounds.
- Rhythalion for the revised texts.
- mac89, messenger, crayon, hellenes, rumil, Lupus, Baza and Raphael, for being part of the team.
- People at multiplayer for many enjoyable games.

- Roma Surrectum 2 team for the new battlemap environments:
Tone: trees, vegetation, grass, ground textures, terrain generator, and campaign map textures.
dvk901: water improvements, rivers, and a few textures here and there.

- TheLordz and NTW2 team for the skies, and some ground textures.

- METW team for the campaign map, and Metal Storm for his professional improvements.

- Aradan, Dol Guldur and rest of FATW team for all their researches and tutorials, and for sharing
with us the spreadsheet to calculate his unit costs, the base of our unit balancing system.

- Darth_Vader and Sinuhet for the AI formations.

- King Kong and TATW team for the Argonaths and Elostirion strat models, and some improvements to forest layouts.

- Echolyn for the great intro video, and the setup of the Last Alliance historical battle.

- Mods like Europa Barbarorum, DarthMod, SPQR, Roma Surrectum, Rome Total Realism, Iberia TW, ChivTW, Napoleonic Total War 2, ... for inspiration

- Modders of all time like Vercingetorix, Myrddraal, Epistolary Richard, Lord Adherbal's, SigniferOne, Simetrical, The_Mark, Makanyane, Red Spot's, khelvan, Thor the Bassist, Monkwarrior, Athenogoras...

And specially helpfull for every release:
- HouseOfHam - EDB validator, and his important discoveries on scripting
- RedFox - Zeus the Omnipotent EDB, DMB, DS Validator
- Squid - ATVTW - Trait/Ancillary Validator, descr_geography.db Editor
- MrHide - Trivium independant Map Editor (TiME)

All the people at Twcenter.net , Forums.totalwar.org forums. And of course, people who still keep coming to www.lotr-tw.net