Reddit reviews The Complete Tolkien Companion

As I play, I like to look up every name I come acress to see if it is canonical. Or, at least find out what it means. For example, there's a Malledhrim by the name of Goldagnir (http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Goldagnir). The word "dagnir" means bane, so, this person is the bane of Gol. Which makes me start thinking about who Gol is, or what it pertains to.

Just yesterday I was playing through the Enedwaith quests, and came across "The Huntsmen". He spoke of his Lord from the uttermost West, which is clearly Orome. Which makes this particular entity a Maiar, or at least that was my assumption. The game can't say that, since SSG doesn't have the rights to the Silmarillion, but they can certainly allude to the fact. The lotRo wiki agrees with me, as they have the race listed as Maia: https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/The_Huntsman_(NPC)

I also follow along with the Tolkien Companion (https://smile.amazon.com/Complete-Tolkien-Companion-J-Tyler/dp/1250023556/) and the Atlas of Middle Earth (https://smile.amazon.com/Atlas-Middle-Earth-Revised-Karen-Fonstad/dp/0618126996/). Lots of interesting information from those source that makes me see things in the game world I might otherwise disregard.

I just got into LOTR LCG, picked up the core set in January and at first I thought "this will be a cute little game". Shortly after things escalated quickly and I fell in love, it was my own. I begun to reread LOTR, I bought the Shadows of Mirkwood cycle but that wasn't enough precious! So I went to the amazon and got Dwarrowdelf and Against the Shadow cycles at the same time, we needs it.

After that came the deckbuilding and they wanted to touch the cards! With their filthy fat hobbitses hands, we must protect it!

So having suddenly 1500+ cards to sleeve I needed to go cheap. So I went to mordor and bought a few pack's the quality is quite good BUT some packs happen to be 2mm longer wich is annoying but easily fixed with a metal ruler and x acto knife.

Also I made a my own custom playmat and cause I am crazy like that I bought this book it's epic!

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This one and this atlas are really good. The atlas would easily be worth it as a read on its own. The guide is kind of an encyclopedia with pretty much every name or place you could want to look up.