The quality of the graphics in The Fellowship of the Ring can be summed up in one word, satisfactory. The sprites themselves are detailed and clean. The overall color scheme tends toward more earthy toned colors, which I feel is very appropriate for any setting in Middle Earth. However, this also makes the sprites a tad difficult to separate and quite often it is hard to tell what's what on the screen. Thankfully, a cursor appears whenever you are near an object you can pick up, so you don't have to strain your eyes looking over every little detail of the landscape. Another problematic area is the character portraits that appear in the dialogue boxes. For some reason, Pocket Games has decided that every person living in Middle Earth is terribly unattractive. Even characters such as Galadriel look, umm, unpleasant. The final area of note is the item and equipment icons. While the icons that are there look nice, there just isn't enough variety. A large chain shirt looks the same as a small leather tunic.
If you had to choose a word to describe the sound of The Fellowship of the Ring the one that springs to my mind is unsatisfactory. The sound effects, what few there are, are dull, generic and pretty typical. While the music is very nice, you're lucky if it starts playing for you most of the time. This is the game's only glaring bug, and it's a doozy. Every single time you load up your saved game, the music won't start playing. In fact, the music won't start playing until after some random amount of time has passed.
This is truly a shame as the music is one of the best parts of this game and captures the feel of the various areas perfectly. Walking through Hobbiton in silence isn't nearly as much fun as with a homely little jaunt playing in the background. While it 'may' be possible that this seemingly random playing of music was an intentional designed feature of the game, it certainly wouldn't have been at the top of my list. Oh, and one more thing, there isn't any battle music, and battling barrow wights to the cheery sound of highway music isn't very thrilling.