- The Other Darrin: Some of the film's cast did not reprise their roles for this game. For example: Aragorn is not voiced by Viggo Mortensen, Legolas is not voiced by Orlando Bloom, and Éomer is not voiced by Karl Urban.
- Role Reprise: Among the actors returning to voice characters they played in the films are:
- Elijah Wood (Frodo)
- Sean Astin (Sam)
- Andy Serkis (Gollum)
- Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
- John Rhys-Davies (Gimli, Treebeard)
- Christopher Lee (Saruman)
- Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
- Billy Boyd (Pippin)
- Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
- Screwed by the Lawyers:
- The games are not available for rerelease on any digital distribution services due to EA letting the license deals expire.
- While creating the first game, EA only picked up the rights to the films. This meant that the designers could only show elements from those films in the game. A specific anecdote brought up was that they were very grateful the extended cut of Return of the King showed Saruman attempt to blast Gandalf with a fireball, since otherwise they would not have been able to give him any such ability. It's very evident that this was redressed for the sequel, which included a near-cavalcade of book elements.
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