 The game 's development began in 2011 . In order to create an accurate environment and be consistent with the books written by Tolkien , the developer consulted several people from Warner Bros. , and Peter Jackson , the director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film series . In addition , the team received assistance from Weta Workshop , who gave advice to the team in creating special effects . Monolith focused on the development of the PC , PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions , while the development of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions was outsourced to Behaviour Interactive . The port to Linux and OS X was done by Feral Interactive . 
