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From Kevin:
Great site. I’ve been visiting it daily for the past couple of months, you have some great info.
I just figured I’d give you my ideas and comments on the LOTR:FOTR game by Games Workshop. Being an avid wargamer, I have been into the previous core games of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,00 for almost eight years. I played my first game of LOTR today and was very suprised.
I had previously heard that LOTR was a horrible game, that it was too simple and didn’t play well. Nothing could be more wrong. While LOTR is easy to learn, it still requires a large amount of strategy to play well. The Warhammer games work in a standard manner: I do all of my things (move, shoot, etc) then you do all of your things. The LOTR system of everyone doing all of their actions in the same turn really makes you consider effective placement more. Also, the addition of priority makes you have to watch where your opponent could reach you: He might be able to move or shoot before you!
What I really liked about LOTR is how Heroes are truly heroic! In the in-store scenario it pitted four Elves and two Men of Gondor against 16 Moria goblins. This was fairly even, I played with the forces of good and lost, while I watched others win. What amazed me was when I first saw the employees pit Aragorn against these 16 goblins. They were utterly slaughtered. With the addition of things like Might, Will and Fate points they can be stronger, tougher and utterly anihilliate any opponents. I watched Aragorn and Boromir used, and tried Gandalf myself. His “Sorcerous Blast” was awesome, I used it to blast goblins off of cliffs, into one another and off of the table! Great fun. Overall, the Heroes are truly powerful, and they really convey how they feel in the book (and I guess the movie).
I really have to say that I’ll enjoy this game. I was doubtful at first, but after playing it and getting better look at the minis I’m sure I’ll want to play it often. I’ll give it two thumbs up ;).
On another note, I also won the painting competition for my Elven Warrior. Pics will appear in White Dwarf soon, I’ll try to scan the pages for your webpage.
Cleo sends along these great scans of our lovely Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) from ‘In Style’ Magazine. Check them out!
Dozens of editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are available in hardcover and paperback, according to the Lord of the Rings home page. [More]
The Dec. 19 release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three films encompassing the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy, offers an opportunity to reassess his literary legacy. [More]
London Nov 4 (Reuter) — An Oxford don has sensationally panned last century’s most popular work, branding JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings ‘an error-ridden pot-boiler’ it emerged today. Oxford professor emeritus of humanities, David J Hickling, launched into the searing critique on one of his own univeristy’s most prominent former dons, just as Tolkien’s hobbit heroes are set to do box-office battle with JK Rowling’s young wizard Harry Potter. ‘I know his work has given many readers a lot of pleasure over the years, but it simply doesn’t stand up to the critical spotlight,’ said Hickling. ‘For a start, this supposedly ‘other world’ uses the Roman calender to measure time. I don’t recall the legionaries ever having to defend a place called Middle Earth,’ he sneered. ‘Even if we judge the text in terms of its own context, it still falls apart. The logical errors are endless. For example, the plot hinges on the destruction of ‘the one ring’. It is a task entrusted to the vulnerable hobbit heroes, who must endure the familiar travails before their heroic task is completed and evil vanquished. ‘Yet, creatures who inhabit this world include friendly giant eagles, who can carry people on their backs! ‘Tolkien could have saved his ‘good’ creatures a lot of time and bother by simply delivering the ring, via eagle post, to its destruction in Mt Doom.’ Prof Hickling was speaking on the eve of the UK release of the Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which also came under attack. ‘JK Rowling is very limited. I would let my five-year-old daughter read her books, but I would expect her to have outgrown them by the time she was seven.’ Post-production work is completed on the first film of Tolkien’s trilogy, the Fellowship of the Ring, whic is set down for a December 19 UK release. Critics are expecting a close battle between the two fantasy titans for the lion’s share of the lucrative Christmas box office spoils.