There were hobbits in all kinds of sauces and cooking at the Kosmos and Ravensburger boothes, not to speak of the fantasy / ccg hall. None of the new big boxes games settled in Middle-Earth seems to have the depth, interest and originality of Reiner Knizia’s Lord of the Rings, published one year before, and for which the Bree & Isengard expansion was unveiled at the fair. Among the smaller boxes, it’s once more Reiner Knizia who made for the best adaptation of the book with his LotR card game, published by Ravensburger. A clever bidding and placement system of character and places cards recreates some of the flow of the story. Unfortunately, the game is illustrated with bad pictures from the movie. All hobbits have the same irish drunkard faces, and Gandalf looks like a macrobiotic garderner. It’s a pity, since this clever game clearly deserved a true graphich work. [More]
Thanks to Ostadan from the Greenbooks for the note.
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I also started the Bree Set (the next place in the hobbits route). Here you can see the first taste: a nice old-looking Bree house! (soon you’ll have the “Prancing Pony” Tavern too).
As Tolkien explained, Bree has a reasonable Hobbit population, specially in holes and small houses around the hill, so, as you pointed, Bree scenario will probably have some hobbit-hole areas.
The Bree house looks incredibly accurate to the set pictures we’ve seen from the movies. You can check out Josef Bugman’s message board Here, where you can even volunteer your services to the project.
Compare the two images for yourself! The one on the right is straight from our spy pics of the Bree set. Remarkable how much attention Josef has put into fashioning this game after the likeness of the movie.
Check out our exclusive interview with Josef Bugman on the game Here.
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The ‘Ultimate Movie Poll’ conducted by Empire, the number one film magazine in Britain has been concluded after more than two months of voting. One of the most prestigous polls out there, the cast & crew of Lord of the Rings featured very well in most fields. Hugo Weaving’s The Matrix was in the top five films and also appeared in the best soundtrack and trailer fields. Brad Douriffs’s One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Bernard Hill’s Titanic, Ian Holm’s Alien and John Rhys-Davies‘s Raiders of the Lost Ark came in 49, 34, 23 and 11 in the top 50 respectively. Cate Blanchett was voted the 15th best actress, Peter Jackson was the 23rd best director, and Lord of the Rings itself picked up the number one spot for the Best Trailer. [More]
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From NiteAngyl:
The people of the site www.Starring.nl announced that on the 17th and 18th of November that there will be a Lord of the Rings weekend on Yorin FM, a local radio. They will give away prices, tickets to the movie and the most exciting thing of all: A luxury ten-day trip to New Zealand to make a travel-documentary of the country. The people at this radio doesn’t give much information yet, but we’ll see within a month, right?
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As a lot of you may or may not know, this weekend sees the introduction of Daylight Savings Time to quite a lot of countries around the globe, and after a lot of calculations I’ve tried my best to tinker with the times with these changes in hand. So to make sure you don’t show up an hour early/late for the chat you want, follow the link for more information. [More]
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Decipher’s added all new pics of the Fellowship of the Ring packaging! The stuff looks great, the boxes alone are worth getting into the game.[More]
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