A Casual Stroll to Mordor

It’s been a while since I have blogged about going to U-Con, although if you heard last Saturday’s episode you’ll know that I talked about it quite a bit.

Last year I attended Michigan’s Ucon in Ann Arbor for the first time ever. Talbot of Landroval had seen that I had done an article on Games Workshop’s Lord of The Rings miniatures and informed me that he usually hosted a game or two every year at Ucon and said that if I was interested [...]

I have another miniature report to share with you this week. This time it is a complete model of Bag End made by 30 year old Maddie Chambers of Chesterfield, Derbyshire (that’ means she’s in the UK).

This it truly just jaw dropping beautiful to to me. Minas Tirith made completely out of matchsticks! The project that took nearly 3 full years was recently completed last month. Built by Patrick Acton the model is built out of 420,000 matchsticks and 24,000 small wooden blocks.

This weekend I went to U-Con to geek out and play The Lord of The Rings Strategy Battle Game with Talbot of Landroval (who has a blog post up concerning the event that you should read as well).  And I have to say that it was a ton of fun!  I felt badly about leaving [...]

Saturday, November 14th Talbot on Landroval and Merric will be at the U-Con Gaming convention playing the LOTR Strategy Battle Game. We’d love for other players to come and join us for some fun!

Most of us were introduced to Tolkien’s world before The Lord of the Rings Online came out in some fashion.  Some of us through the books, others through the animated movies, and others through the live-action movies.  Nevertheless, somehow, someway we all traveled to Middle Earth and were so captivated that we have found a [...]