An EA press release reveals that Battle For Middle Earth, the much anticipated Lord of The Rings RTS should be in stores as expected on December 6.

Redefining the destiny of the Fellowship like never before … Electronic Arts officially announced today that the highly anticipated real-time strategy (RTS), The Lord of the RingsTM, The Battle for Middle-earthTM has gone Gold and will ship December 6, 2004. Developed at EA's Los Angeles studio exclusively for the PC under the EA GAMESTM brand, The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth captures the epic battles from all three The Lord of the Rings films.