Reading The Game: Shadow Of Mordor

For years now, some of the best, wildest, most moving or revealing stories we've been telling ourselves have come not from books, movies or TV, but from video games. So we're running an occasional series, Reading The Game, in which we take a look at some of these games from a literary perspective. They march and they argue. They taunt their human slaves and, when they pass close enough, I can hear them talking about me -- Talion, called Gravewalker, murdered Captain of Gondor brought back to life by magic and the influence of my mostly-invisible elf/wraith buddy, Celebrimbor, who is a ghost that lives in my head. I am bored out of my elf-inhabited mind.