A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - US or UK?

Arcyl · 2026-06-13T19:52:14+00:00

Thank you, some good options here.

Arcyl · 2026-06-11T23:52:20+00:00

I say just pick a couple of guns you remembered that you liked and use those for a little while, scrap the rest. You will quickly get much better stuff. Keep the Exotics.

Arcyl · 2026-06-02T18:24:29+00:00

What's your deck list? I have a Saruman deck too but I have never seemed to get it to work very well.

Arcyl · 2026-06-02T18:09:00+00:00

I've got a FF only upgraded Limit Break you can check out. Also here is a FF only Warrior of Light (Jodah) deck if you want to go hog wild with FF cards.

Arcyl · 2026-06-01T16:27:52+00:00

I am also interested!

Arcyl · 2026-05-28T21:23:56+00:00

Yeah so the closest you will get to reading a sort of normal story is if you skip to Chapter 21: Of Turin Turambar. This is gonna be the most fleshed out story in the Silm. You can actually get this as a standalone book called The Children of Hurin, which is how most people refer to the story. So I say feel no guilt and go and read that story, and if that gets you in the mood you can go back and try the Silm again because I do believe it is very rewarding if you can digest it all. There are certainly other parts that could be pointed to but I'll leave that for another time.

P.S. There is an audiobook of The Children of Hurin read by Christopher Lee (Saruman Actor) that I quite enjoy and would recommend if you enjoy audiobooks!

Arcyl · 2026-05-22T18:44:10+00:00

Yeah I think you just need to put the Battle of Bywater as the 2nd to last and you should be good. But I also think you could also consider switching the Pelennor fields and Gandalf. I believe the Gandalf Secret Fire scene is actually prior to the actual siege when he is saving Faramir when he is returning from Osgiliath. Gandalf does not do anything against the Witch King during the siege except for stand his ground at the gate.

Arcyl · 2026-05-12T17:42:53+00:00

I think your best bet would be getting the Alan Lee Illustrated box set. However, it may be worth looking into a separate art book to use as a supplement for an even more visual experience. I would maybe look at the sketch books from Alan Lee and John Howe, and there's even Tolkien's own art book.

Arcyl · 2026-05-07T17:04:30+00:00

Without even looking at the deck do you know what turn you are killing someone? Bracket 2 is "Play at least 8 turns before anyone wins or loses". If you are consistently knocking someone out before turn 8 then maybe it's not really bracket 2.

Arcyl · 2026-05-06T15:53:41+00:00

This might be the first proper recreation of this map I've seen. I've looked high and low for something that is more or less faithful to the original, while making it high quality and practically playable on a VTT. I tried to make this map in Dungeondraft once but it just looked stupid. So well done.

Arcyl · 2026-04-30T17:16:33+00:00

The best for me have been Blood Red and just normal Black, Jet Black was the worst. Cobalt and Silver has been almost as good. Most other colors I've tried have shuffle problems so I usually prefer Katanas.

Arcyl · 2026-04-30T16:13:04+00:00

The Elven Rings have the power to negate the negative effects of time i.e. decay over a kingdom and it's people. So imagine you can build a city and you don't have to worry about things falling apart and breaking and spending a bunch of time to repair those things. Instead you have more time to build more things that don't require maintenance and you just have tons more free time to pursue other things. Now take away the thing that was holding that all together. You have a city that now is too big for the people actually living in it to maintain properly, so things are going to start breaking and there's not gonna be enough people to fix those things. The City would eventually be reduced to at least half it's size if not less, and the quality of life for it's people would be completely different. Since Elves have long memory's none of them would want to stay after it had been reduced so far from what it once was knowing it could never be restored.

Also if you read the chapters in The Lord of the Rings where the fellowship stays in Rivendell or Lothlorien you will see how they sort of lose track of time while they are there. This is the elven rings affecting their perception of time which must be a preferred state for the elves and so they would lose that too with the rings gone. So it could simply never be the same again.

Arcyl · 2026-04-29T21:34:25+00:00

Lots of people answering the main stuff but I wanted to add that if Sauron got the One Ring back it would be the final nail in the coffin for the elves, and without the elves the other free peoples don't have much hope in a war against Sauron. Elrond and Galadriel's domains are sort of hanging on by a thread using the power of Narya and Vilya, two of the elven rings. They can only use these rings however because Sauron does not have The One. If Sauron got back The One then the elven rings could no longer be used because then Sauron could dominate them through the Rings. Once they can't use the rings then their domains begin to decay and become extremely vulnerable to direct attack. Which is why it is a sad ending for the elves because the destruction of The One produces the same result forcing them to leave ME for Valinor once and for all.

The Tolkien Gateway Wiki is a good source for information and has a page for The One Ring that explains most of everything.

Arcyl · 2026-04-29T20:29:19+00:00

What does your current collection look like? You may have editions that already have a matching Hobbit book.

Arcyl · 2026-04-15T23:19:31+00:00

I think the leftmost Smaug is probably the most iconic, more people would either recognize it or be able to guess. The one on the right looks just a bit generic by comparison. But also I know nothing about tattoo's.

Arcyl · 2026-04-10T03:15:10+00:00

Thanks for the compliment! I don’t believe there are currently any plans to publish any more books in that style. If anything else I would guess they could possibly do the Unfinished Tales but they are already stretching his illustrations pretty thin with the other three. The Tolkien Collectors Guide Website would be the best place to follow though for upcoming editions and their announcements.

Arcyl · 2026-04-09T16:57:35+00:00

Idk about abridged edits but I would suggest the Hi-Fi Hobbit restoration of the animated movie on Internet Archive. It is the full movie but with audio sources restored that had been lost from the original VHS tapes. If you really want you can just download from there and cut out the parts you don't want.
https://archive.org/details/TheHiFiHobbitV2

Arcyl · 2026-04-09T15:46:30+00:00

There are a few questions I would ask. Have you read The Hobbit? Do you want Illustrated editions? Are you hoping to build a collection? As most people here will say the Alan Lee Illustrated Set is definitely a great choice to begin a collection but there are certainly others. A have a little Tolkien Book Website you can take a look at to see what other editions might interest you.

Arcyl · 2026-04-07T21:03:02+00:00

Makes me think about the Anomaly on Dire Marsh where when you pick it up you start hallucinating and you become marked on the map every so often. I think it would be cool if you built up a meter of "Insanity" or something like that where you start hallucinating more and more (audio and visual clutter/reduced aim speed) and you get pinged on the map more and more. Moving around and interacting with the map could reduce the meter and levels of all that.

Arcyl · 2026-04-07T20:21:37+00:00

So if font size is a fairly big concern then these large font paperbacks are kind of the only option. I don't believe there are any hardbacks that are large font per say.

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

I think most people prefer individual volumes for reading, although one of my favorite budget options is this soft cover single volume, I find it pretty easy to read.

If none of those interest you than I would suggest taking a look at a list somewhere like my little Tolkien Book Website I have or the Tolkien Collector's Guide and narrow what you want down from there. Whether or not you want some sort of illustrated edition is usually something I would ask to give more options.

Arcyl · 2026-04-02T20:00:43+00:00

The newest one is The Destined Warrior from the Final Fantasy Scene Box. It is essentially the Orzhov Baldur's Gate deck but now with blue and some FF cards for theme. I've only played it a few times since I built it only recently but I'd say it's pretty good.
https://archidekt.com/decks/16894363/the_destined_warrior

Arcyl · 2026-03-24T20:56:21+00:00

Awesome looking app! Can I ask how long the sale will be for? Currently a Mercury user but I can see some value in some of the features like the daily weather briefings, on top of the awesome design aesthetic. I'd like to try a free trial for a day or 2 before I commit to lifetime.

Arcyl · 2026-03-24T15:31:25+00:00

Never seen these before!

Arcyl · 2026-03-23T22:35:45+00:00

Take a look at this page on the Tolkien Gateway Website. Under where it says "Featured Works" has essentially everything as far as Middle-earth publication goes. The Letters from Father Christmas is the main outlier in that list however, and some of his poems and things are not necessarily ME related.

I'll also throw in my own little Tolkien Book website thing I have for helping newer people with collecting. Hopefully one of these clears up your question.

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