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Gaming
The path to Middle-earth will soon open for new adventurers. At Gen Con, Free League Publishing (Alien, Forbidden Lands) revealed that the acclaimed second edition of The...
Gaming
The Lord of the Rings and the rest of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium have long been a part of the world of tabletop, as both inspiration...
Reviews
To call me a casual fan of the Lord of the Rings franchise might be too generous. I’ve seen the movies (live action and...
Gaming
Cubicle 7 Games is planning for their biggest year ever. Already one of the UK’s biggest publishers of tabletop RPG’s, their recent move to...
Gaming
Digital card games are on the rise. The success of Hearthstone has seen a larger movement toward this platform, with common comparison Magic: The...
Books
“The Scouring of the Shire” is perhaps the most distinct chapter of The Lord of the Rings. The epic quite suddenly becomes local; the...
Books
A shorter essay for a shorter chapter this week, as we head into Return of the King: Endgame. [Note: after writing this and going...
Books
“Many Partings” is a nice chapter, if not a necessary one. It’s a chapter-long farewell between our characters (and their world) and puts a...
Books
About three years and 1,123 pages later (oh my god), we’ve finally made our way through the traditional climax of The Lord of the...
Books
So. My guys. Ghân-buri-Ghân. I have been low-key dreading this chapter since the start of our re-read, wondering what useful things I could possibly...
Books
J.R.R. Tolkien, as he would like you to keep in mind, was not a fan of allegory. He states in his letters, on twelve...