Lord of the Rings by Interplay. It was one of, it not the first PC RPG game, and took some ideas from D&D while drawing on most of the LOTR mythology. It’s more convincing a LOTR game than even the ones published now, amazingly. I think a big part of that is so much is influenced by Peter Jackson’s trilogy, whereas the game is like stepping right into the book.

There were a number of subplots in Bree, for example, that fleshed it out as a believable hamlet and not just a pitstop on the way to Rivendell.