The cutest LOTR game in the world!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Since one can never have too much Tolkein in their life, I picked this up for me and my son to play:

LOTR game

It’s wonderful! It has little wooden Nazgul and a palantir and wooden hobbit markers and beautiful, beautiful artwork. We played it for two hours today. You can send Nazgul to slow down your opponents (he loved doing that). The spinner looks like the Ring, too.

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Tolkien.
Tolkien.
Tolkien.
Tolkien.
bugger!

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There’s an adult Lord of the Rings board game that’s pretty amazing, too.

(Not that kind of adult, you sickos)

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And LOTR: Risk.

Although, the new rules are confusing, so I usually just play with the standard risk rules. But playing even standard risk is cool with the Middle-Earth territories. “I attack from Near Harad to Khand” is cooler than “I attack from Congo to East Africa”.

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I have the LOTR Trivia game. When I bought it the man looked at me and said, “you do know this isn’t based on the movies, don’t you?”

insert long sarcastic rant about females only liking LOTR because of Orlando Bloom, no way could they actually have been reading the books these past twelve years

I like it, the questions range from easy to challenging. This came up last night:

Friend: What did the elves put in the boat that particularly delighted Sam?

HDS: Frodo! giggle giggle giggle

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That’s about four years per book! :eek:

And rope! Frodo + rope = delighted Sam!

Enjoy,
Steven

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Reading, re-reading, reading again…you know. And there’s the Silmarillion, and other works. Orlando didn’t have a thing to do with it.

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I have the Trivial Pursuit and the other trivia game. I like the TP game but there’s this whole category about technical stuff. I don’t sit there watching the credits so I don’t know most of it. I like the other trivia game because it covers stuff the movie never covered.
Mr. Congo got me into the books when he first found out the movies were being made (about a year before the first was released). I love them all. Orlando Bloom is sexy but the movies still would have been a success without him.
I have another game where you build Middle Earth. Once the board has been made, Frodo and Sam have to race to the get the ring to Mount Doom. There’s no trivia but it’s still a great game. I can’t remember what it’s called though.