yes, thats what i will feel like when we get to the shire....middle earths a beautiful place, but there aint no place like the good old shire.....ivy bush inn anyone?

Yes, please. Ivy Bush, Green Dragon, etc. It is indeed the Shire that brings the warmest of feelings. And as the spring slowly springs, I feel like I should reread the book(s), I am just not sure whether to pick up the Hobbit of the Fellowship.

I hope to see the inns as interesting locations or objectives, or even attachments (on locations - I hope to see more of those like Ancient Mathom, I think it is a great idea).

The Shire is great because so many things meet up there, as mentioned above, the Elves wander through, the Dwarves dwell near by, and the evils are really "cool" too. I want to see spies, bandits, wolves, and even the trolls from the area seem much more interesting than elsewhere.

Hi, it is my very first post ever in any forum so please be kind (and English is not my mother tongue).

I've read several suggestions about what kind of cycle ffg could come out with. Shire, Isengard, Gondor... but still wondering what's on the mind of Nathan French and his team.

If they consider The Lord of the Ring lcg to be based on Tolkien's complete work instead of the 3 tomes' story everyone knows about, we should even expect to buy someday quests or allies, even heroes based on underdog characters such as the two other Istari, Alatar and Palando.

I'm refering to another card game that was released I believed in 1995, Middle Earth: the Wizard. Too many rules but a great game. Anyway, it was possible to play heroes from the first to the third age together.

I would not have expected the same from FFG but since I discovered from you guy that Eleanor and Berevor are made-up heroes, I am opened to everything.

Why not thinking the we might get a cycle about the dragons. Since Smaug could be defeated on the last quest of a ''Dale cycle'' or Erebor, or Lonely Mountain, another cycle could show up final stage enemies such as Scatha, Eärcaraxë, Bairanax, Agburanar, Scorba and Daelomin, since every dragon covers a specific region of Middle Earth.

hi, and welcome tornak...do not fear- you will find us a pleasant bunch on here

i had this discussion a few months ago and i do not belive it is as simple as FFG saying yeah lets create the blue wizards, or yep lets take something out of unfinsihed tales and put it in. they all have different licenses, and while ffg may be allowed to create their own content (to an extent) it all depends on what license they have at the moment

i have heard that christopher tolkien guards the rights to the silmarillion like a dragons horde

now we have seen alot of characters, some from the hobbit, some from the trilogy, but i doubt ffg will ever go so far as to break tolkien lore as to have 1st,2nd and 3rd age characters all togetther- i hope they dont

now when ive said this previously - people have said wait? we already can take characters and put them through moria, and then have them live out thier lives until the fellowship events- whats that about then?

well----theres limits.......and i dont think ffg will ever do 1st age material....could be wrong, but i dunno, just dont feel it ever going there

and anyways my tolkien puriest self says i dont want that to happen, as much as i crave new material

you say nate considers this game to be based on ALL tolkiens work? ..he's got his work cut out for him then, because with the silmarillion, akallabeth, Ufinished tales, the hobbit, the trilogy, the appendices, tom bomadils adventures....theres a hell of a lot there....the heirs of numenor its self inc.all the days in exile would give them years worth of heros

most of those dragons are iron crown creations correct? the only tolkien named dragons i cant think of are smaug, glaurung, ancalagon and scatha....the iron crown game i have never played, though what i have gleamed from looking at it, it seems to be a lot more looser on the lore of arda than this game

mind you i would love to see the blue wizards if we ever went east- thought being failed and leaders of cults as tolkien guesses- they may end up being enemies

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Tornak: FFG established that the timeline for the game's adventures resides between the end of The Hobbit and Bilbo's birthday party in The Fellowship of the Ring.

Although nothing could prevent them from stepping away from this rule, I think they'll stick to it for a while, creating adventures based on tid-bits we know happened but never saw fully recounted in the books (like the capture of Gollum; although we know that Aragorn did it pretty much by himself in the books, it was an untold tale).

So I don't see us going to kill Smaug, since he died in The Hobbit. But exploring the happenings in the Dale area during those subsequent years could be a way to get a cycle located in this area.

i thought they had said that sick boy- though i wasnt fully sure so i didnt mention it

also the hunt for gollum got its own chapter in unfinished tales, though i dont particularly think that ffg took much (if anything) from it that couldnt be found in the appendices

I would like to see 2 different major expansions... the areas surrounding the White City. This is could be a really cool set of quests that are about securing the area rather than "traveling". As the men of Gondor were the wall between Mordor and the free peoples. So like each quest could be written as part of a camping (like a startergy game) were Gondor is defending and securing towns and trade routs and stuff... also of course be cool to see some love sent to the realm of men instead of the alien races. Anyway, I feel a set focusing on teh white city would be sweet and the art would be awesome.

Also I forget the name but that spooky area that all the undead cursed people live that Aragorn rallies for the war. Undead are always cool for art sake and I think that the dead marshes was a wasted opportunity to see some spooky stuff... I think the themeing of this area would also make a fantastic setting for the game.

dunharrow/dwimorberg- and great idea with gondor

SiCK_Boy said:

Actually from the rule book:

"These quests take place during a timespan of 17 years: from when Bilbo celebrates his 111th birthday (and Frodo’s 33rd) to days just prior to Frodo’s leaving the Shire." Although they obviously have broken that with Frodo at least.

I think that the time period you mentioned has a lot of potential, but would require some cards mods / deletions -- Bilbo with the ring, no Frodo, teen age Aragon, Boromir, and Eowyn (bad images of heros in high school), the turning of Saruman, etc. I still think a deluxe in this time period will probably be issued when the movie comes out. FFG could do it well, or they could really break things.

Tom

Aragorn would be fine. He is 70 years old when Bilbo has his 111 birthday.