Mark's Ranking
- 2012: 17th
- 2010: 15th
- 2005: 33rd
- appeared in all three lists
- rank: 387
- rating: 6.87
Print Status
- in print (but only in a newer/stripped-down edition)
Why It's On The List
- There had been cooperative games before this one... but Knizia broke the mold and created a sprawling (and gorgeous) cooperative masterpiece that reflects the tensions & storylines of the books in a highly abstracted way. And my wife likes it.
Tips & Tricks:
- There are three expansions to the already meat-y base game...
- Friends & Foes (which added Foes as well as two new "locations" - boards - to work through) - yes, it did make the game longer by almost half.
- Sauron (which added several different ways to play the game, including a "one player - Sauron - versus everyone else" variant that works like a charm)
- Battlefields (which added another board for each location... is highly abstract... and, to be completely, I've never actually played.)
- Suggestion: don't combine the Friends & Foes and Sauron expansions - it's just too darn long.
- I've played 50+ games of this... and will happily play it again if someone asks.
Extras
- Here's what I wrote about the game for The One Hundred: both my personal entry and the group entry.
- The picture at the top of the page is (sadly) not my own - with so many of my games packed into storage right now, I couldn't get to Lord of the Rings to take an appropriate picture. It's actually from a very nice review of the older edition of the game from Gaming Trend entitled "Lord Of The Rings, the Board Game by Reiner Knizia: Because Tolkien Made It Seem Too Easy".
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If you feel a need to catch up on my admittedly-aging Top 100 as of February 2012 list, you can check out:
- my Pinterest board about the Top 100
- a BoardGameGeek Geeklist (in order of BGG ranking)
- the rest of the posts here on aka pastor guy
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