Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail (1990)

"Middle-earth Play-By-Mail is an award-winning strategic game set the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In it, you take on the role of the heroes (and villains) of Middle-earth, leading armies, undertaking perilous adventures, governing your cities and towns, and making all the decisions that affect your empire. Middle-earth Play-By-Mail is a team game, where you work together as part of either the Free Peoples in defending the innocent against Sauron's hatred, or as a Dark Servant, a hand of Sauron. Middle-earth Play-by-Mail is a turn-based game. This means that rather than playing online, you have the luxury of time in which to consider and plan your next move, before submitting your new orders. "