Tolkien Christmas Gifts

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by me

Personally, I am hoping that Santa will bring me [The War of the Ring boardgame] for Christmas. It looks gorgeous - worth it for the gameboard alone.

It's mine - all mine! My .... precioussssss!

[Laitoste]

I got FOTR EE (I got the first one free with the test drive of a Kia and then my mom said I didn't need another version of the same movie, but she finally gave in!!!), ROTK EE (love it!), and LOTR Monopoly from my brother. He only got it for me because he loves the game and can't convince me to play the regular or Packers version. Why do I want to play a game that I always lose and then am mocked because of it? Anyway, it's really cool (even though I lost again ) and I like the LOTR twist to make the game shorter.

[mark12_30]

It doesn't sound like a LOTR gift at first. But when you've collected enough Tolkien music to fill a data CD with mp3s, then an ipod is a Tolkien gift indeed.

Oh, and let's not forget the Movie-Poster-Calendar. All that willpower resisting the lure of posters paid off unexpectedly.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by SpM

It is indeed. I bought the diary version for my sister-in-law for Christmas (together with the RotK EE), and of course just had to look through it before wrapping it up. It includes the pages from the Book of Mazarbul that are in the 50th Anniversary edition of the book (another good Christmas present idea).

In Waterstones they have the Tolkien 2005 50th Anniversary Diary reduced to just £5. I snapped one up of course.

Originally Posted by Me

I have the film based Trivial Pursuit but so far nobody has dared to play it with me.

Finally the game has been played, and in a contest of 'best of three' the final score was 2-1 against me. But I was playing against an illustrious 'Downer. And there was almost that apocryphal moment known to all Trivial Pursuit fans where one player gets control of the dice and makes it the whole way around the board. The 'film' category was alas the nemesis which prevented this, with its weird questions about the size of the various 'bigatures' and "who played third orc to the left of the first anonymous orc" and so forth. Many of the questions in the other categories were so easy that the only option was to resort to extremes of pedantry regarding answers, e.g. "the answer was The Nazgul, not just Nazgul, so you are clearly wrong". So, let this be a warning to any fellow obsessives, you may not find it quite the challenge you had envisioned.

[Lolidir]

i know this is too late for Cristmas, or is it? there always next year and then birthdays. i dont know about you but i like to collect a lot of different things. i have some posters. My favorite things i have are the action figures. sounds a little childish but hey, when i look over there and see them all sitting there and looking so cool it just makes me smile. i dont know about all you guys buy my most ultimate dream and wish is to get the swords. i really want the fighting knives of Legolas, and then Anduril, then maybe Glamdring. but that would just be so cool to have those hanging on the wall. well theres my Christmas list for anyone that cares.

A little aside - HAPPY 50TH POST TO ME! YAY FOR ME.

[Lindolirian]

...but this is the best place to ask about Tolkien products, it seems.
Does anyone own the Interactive Encyclopedia of Arda? If so, are the extra features worth it? Or is the website good enough? Thanks for your help!