The Lord of The Rings: Gollum might be the newest piece of media related to the extremely popular Middle-Earth world in a while and it’s just about to come out , but what players and fans of the franchise have been wondering is whether or not the game will be canon to the movies or novels.
If you’re one of those people pondering over this question, then worry no more as we’re here to clear up everything regarding the game being canon once and for all.
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Now then, getting right into discussing the elephant in the room, is The Lord of The Rings: Gollum canon? Well, while the game would fit nicely into the overall canon narrative, it has been confirmed that the game will, in fact, NOT be canon. Fans of the series will know that Gollum is already several hundred years old in The Hobbit, which is the first time we see him. Because of this, theoretically speaking, it would have been possible for the game to be canon.
However, there are several reasons the decision to make The Lord of The Rings: Gollum not be canon was made, but perhaps the biggest one is how the narrative of the The Lord of The Rings: Gollum is expected to work.
Having two different voices telling us (Gollum) what to do constantly, the game is expected to give players a lot of freedom of choice to make decisions that will impact the overall story of the game. Therefore, having a game with such a subjective narrative implemented in the story would be too difficult.
This doesn’t mean you won’t be seeing characters and places you know and love in the game. On the contrary, this just means the developers will be given more narrative freedom to make decisions that might not be in line with the official movies and novels. Think the Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War games.