Hey all! Nice to meet you.
I'm a brand new LotR:SBG player, though I've been a wargamer for about nine years. For the longest time, I shied away from LotR:SBG. I'm not a huge snob about the movies - I actually liked the whole LotR trilogy, though I couldn't bring myself to enjoy the Hobbit franchise - but I think it bothered me that it was a
wargame. I thought it kind of missed the point Tolkien was trying to make.
Ok, so maybe I am a little bit of a snob
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Anyway, last year, my father passed away. Our love of Tolkien's work was one of the throughlines of our relationship and had been since I was a little kid. I found myself obsessing about LotR:SBG, and I finally figured out why. My father always had to suppress his nerdy side because of my mother's antipathy for it. However, I think that in another world, where I hadn't moved across an entire continent to get away from my family and my father had really been able to be himself, LotR:SBG is something we would have enjoyed together.
Anyway, when I mentioned all this to my wife, she - to my surprise - encouraged me to start a collection.
That was something I wasn't about to pass up. She's pretty tolerant, but she's never
encouraged me to start a new game.
Anyway, here I am. I've got a couple of boxes of Galadhrim and some Mirkwood elves (who I'll be using as wood elves, but I like the Mirkwood sculpts better) on the way to my local GW. I'm looking forward to getting some models painted and playing some games.
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