04-26-2000, 02:02 AM | #1 |
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Lord of the Rings Chess
I'm sure various LotR chess sets have been made. But what if you were in charge of creating a LotR chess set? What pieces would you choose? I think I would pick this for a standard White/Good vs. Black/Evil game of characters from LotR:
White King - Aragorn Queen - Arwen (obviously) Bishops - Gandalf and Elrond Knights - Eomer and Faramir Rooks - Minas Tirith and The Last Homely House Pawns - I'd make them all hobbits . Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Fredegar, Gaffer, Rosie Cotton Black King - Sauron Queen - Shelob (ok, so they're not married, but she's the only major female villain) Bishops - Saruman and Mouth of Sauron Knights - A Nazgul and the Balrog (not really a knight, but too powerful to be a pawn ) Rooks - Barad-dur and Orthanc Pawns - Gollum, an orc, a troll, an Uruk-hai, an Olog-hai, a Warg, a Barrow Wight, and a Snaga. What would you pick? |
04-26-2000, 02:37 AM | #2 |
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Re: Lord of the Rings Chess
nifty. I like it. But I'd make Eowyn and Faramir the knights, and Galadriel and Gandalf the bishops.
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04-26-2000, 03:12 AM | #3 |
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Re: Lord of the Rings Chess
I have often thought about this myself, actually. Having different pawns to implement more characters is something that never occurred to me, but it works and it works well. Great idea.
Now, all the bishops are underestimative of the characters they represent, but they don't fit in anywhere else... |
04-26-2000, 08:06 PM | #4 |
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Re: Lord of the Rings Chess
Yeah, but the bishops are wise and in some games look like wizards, with staffs and all, so I thought that Gandalf and those people would fit in well there.
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08-09-2000, 02:22 PM | #5 |
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08-10-2000, 06:26 AM | #6 |
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Re: Lord of the Rings Chess
Actually, the site to look at is www.danburymint.co.uk/. Look at their Lord of the Rings page, and you'll see a link to a page which describes the chess set (and provides a much better photograph).
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08-10-2000, 02:02 PM | #7 |
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Re: Lord of the Rings Chess
this is for the set mentioned by MM & others - pretty close Bmilder!
Whte King: Aragorn Queen: Galadriel Bishop: Gandalf, Gimli Knight: Legolas, Eowyn Rook: Minas Tirith, House of Elrond Pawn: Hobbit Black King: Sauron Queen:Shelob Bishop:Saruman, Balrog Knight:Lord of Nazgul, Black Rider Rook rthanc, Barad-dur Pawn rc aryne * |
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