<html> <head> <title>The Lord of the Rings</title> <meta name="keywords" content="Lord of the Rings, Knizia, Tolkien"> <meta name="Content-Type" 1="Untitled Document"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div align="center">   <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="12">     <tr>        <td rowspan="5" width="152" bgcolor="E6E6E6" valign="top" align="center">          <div align="center">            <div align="center">             <div align="center">               <div align="center">                 <div align="center">                   <div align="center"><font size="+2">La Ludoth&egrave;que id&eacute;ale</font><font size="-1"><br>                     de Bruno Faidutti </font></div>                   <p align="center"><font color="#000066" size="-1">Bruno Faidutti's<br>                     <font size="+2">Ideal Game Library</font></font>                  </div>                 <font color="#000066">                  <hr align="center">                 </font>                  <div align="center"><font size="-1"><a href="../critic.html"><font color="#000000">Accueil<br>                   </font><font color="#000066">Main</font></a> </font></div>                 <p align="center"></p>                 <p align="center"><font size="-1"><a href="../criticlast.html"><font color="#000000">Derniers                    ajouts<br>                   </font><font color="#000066">Last games added</font></a></font></p>                 <p align="center"><a href="../critic1.html"><font color="#000000">1:                    A <img src="../../../Symboles/bulwr.gif" width=15 height=10 border=0 align=bottom>C</font></a></p>                 <p align="center"><a href="../critic2.html"><font color="#000000">2:                    D <img src="../../../Symboles/bulwr.gif" width=15 height=10 border=0 align=bottom>H</font></a></p>                 <p align="center"><a href="../critic3.html"><font color="#000000">3:                    I <img src="../../../Symboles/bulwr.gif" width=15 height=10 border=0 align=bottom>M</font></a></p>                 <p align="center"><a href="../critic4.html"><font color="#000000">4:                    N <img src="../../../Symboles/bulwr.gif" width=15 height=10 border=0 align=bottom>S</font></a></p>                 <p align="center"><a href="../critic5.html"><font color="#000000">5:                    T <img src="../../../Symboles/bulwr.gif" width=15 height=10 border=0 align=bottom>Z</font></a></p>                 <p align="center"><font size="-1"><a href="../listes/listes.html"><font color="#000000">Listes<br>                   <font color="#000066">Lists</font> </font></a></font></p>                 <p align="center"><font size="-1"><a href="../trad.html"><font color="#000000">Quelques                    traductions fran&ccedil;aises<br>                   </font><font color="#000066">Some french rules translations</font></a></font></p>                 <p align="center"><font size="-1"><a href="../annee/annee.html"><font color="#000000">Mon                    jeu de l'ann&eacute;e<br>                   </font><font color="#000066">My Game of the Year</font></a></font></p>                 <p align="center"><font size="-1"><a href="../criticedit.html"><font color="#000000">Note                    aux &eacute;diteurs<br>                   </font><font color="#000066">Publishers, please read</font></a></font></p>                 <p align="center"><font size="-1"><a href="../../games.html"><img src="../../../Symboles/home.gif" width=20 height=23 border=0 align=bottom></a></font></p>               </div>               </div>             </div>           </div>         </td>       <td colspan=2 valign="top">          <center>           <p><font color="#000000" size="+1">Reiner Knizia</font></p>           <p><font size="-1"><font size="+4" color="#000066">The Lord of the Rings</font><font size="+4"><br>             Le Seigneur des Anneaux</font><br>             </font> </p>           <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><img src="lotr.jpg" width=284 height=304 align=bottom><img src="lotrfriends.jpg" width=286 height=304 align=bottom><img src="lotrsauron.jpg" width="238" height="260"><br>             <img src="lotrp1.jpg" width=367 height=80 align=bottom></font></p>         </center>       </td>     </tr>     <tr>        <td colspan=2>          <div align="center">            <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="12">             <tr>                <td valign=top>                  <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">J'&eacute;tais sceptique.<br>                   Knizia, ma&icirc;tre incontest&eacute; des jeux math&eacute;matiques                    et abstraits, s'attaquant au riche univers de la merveilleuse                    saga pour adolescents de Tolkien. En plus, on annon&ccedil;ait                    un jeu de coop&eacute;ration, comble du politiquement correct                    mais habituellement pas de l'int&eacute;r&ecirc;t ludique.</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Enfin, comme j'ai de merveilleux                    de souvenirs de mes lectures de Tolkien, comme le jeu &eacute;tait                    beau, comme j'avais lu ici ou l&agrave; qu'il &eacute;tait plus                    int&eacute;ressant qu'il n'y paraissait, je l'ai essay&eacute;.                    Je me suis m&ecirc;me pay&eacute; l'&eacute;dition anglaise                    - identique mais deux fois plus ch&egrave;re que sa jumelle                    allemande. Puis, profitant d'une soir&eacute;e de jeux chez                    de vieux amateurs de litt&eacute;rature fantastique, j'ai sorti                    le jeu, distribu&eacute; les r&ocirc;les - Sam, Merry, Pippin                    et Frodo - et nous nous sommes mis en route.</font></p>                 <center>                   <font color="#000000" size="-1"><img src="lotrp2.jpg" width=367 height=133 align=bottom></font>                  </center>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Et tenez vous bien, &ccedil;a                    marche!</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Loin d'&ecirc;tre artificiel,                    le th&egrave;me est au c&#156;ur du jeu. Quand on joue au Seigneur                    des Anneaux, on se sent vraiment dans l'histoire, dans la peau                    des petits hobbits traversant les terres du Milieu, se frayant                    lentement un chemin vers Mordor. Les plateaux de jeu successifs,                    bien con&ccedil;us et magnifiquement illustr&eacute;s, servent                    de support &agrave; des d&eacute;cisions importantes qui doivent                    toujours &ecirc;tre prises en commun. L'astucieux syst&egrave;me                    de cartes oblige &agrave; des n&eacute;gociations permanentes,                    &agrave; un vrai jeu "communautaire", tout en maintenant la                    sp&eacute;cificit&eacute; de chaque joueur. Contrepartie de                    ce parti pris de recr&eacute;er le d&eacute;roulement du livre                    dans le jeu, la m&eacute;canique assez directive risque n&eacute;anmoins                    de susciter des parties peu diff&eacute;rentes des unes des                    autres.</font></p>                 <center>                   <font color="#000000" size="-1"><img src="lotrp4.jpg" width=367 height=134 align=bottom></font>                  </center>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Le Seigneur des Anneaux est                    le premier jeu de Reiner Knizia dans lequel le th&egrave;me                    parvienne &agrave; faire oublier la m&eacute;canique, au demeurant                    fort astucieuse. C'est aussi le premier jeu de coop&eacute;ration                    qui fonctionne vraiment. C'est enfin le premier des innombrables                    jeux inspir&eacute;s par l'&#156;uvre de J.R.R. Tolkien qui                    soit digne de l'&#156;uvre qui l'a inspir&eacute;.</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Simple, efficace et d'une grande                    originalit&eacute;, ce le jeu qui parvient merveilleusement                    &agrave; recr&eacute;er l'univers des terres du milieu est un                    achat indispensable pour tous ceux qui, &agrave; un &acirc;ge                    ou un autre de leur vie, ont &eacute;t&eacute; enchant&eacute;s                    par l'&#156;uvre de Tolkien. Les autres, en revanche, risquent                    de ne pas y trouver grand chose.</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">L'extension "Friends and Foes"                    introduit deux plateaux de jeu suppl&eacute;mentaires, Bree                    et Isengard, ainsi que des amis et ennemis qui rendent les choses                    plus difficiles.</font></p>               </td>               <td valign=top>                  <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">I was very skeptical.<br>                   Reiner Knizia, the undisputed master of abstract and mathematical                    boardgames vying with the strong universe of Tolkien's Lord                    of the Rings. This sounded unlikely. When I heard that it will                    be a cooperation game, which is usually good for political correctness                    but not for gaming interest, I was sure it will be a great flop.</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">However, since I had good rememberances                    of my readings of Tolkien, as a teenager, since the game looked                    nice, and since I read here and there that there was more in                    it than meets the eye, I bought it. I even bought the english                    edition, totally identical with the german one but two times                    more expensive - that's Tolkien Magic. Then, at a game evening                    with old heroic-fantasy addicts, I opened the box and dealt                    the roles - Sam, Merry, Pippin and Frodo, and the trip started.</font></p>                 <center>                   <font color="#000066" size="-1"><img src="lotrp3.jpg" width=367 height=133 align=bottom></font>                  </center>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Here comes the true magic:                    it works, and it works well!</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">The setting, the theme, is                    by no means artificial, it is the heart of the game. When you                    play the Lord of the Rings, you really feel inside the story,                    like small hobbits wandering through the Middle Earth and trying                    to find their way to the terrible Mordor. The wonderfully illustrated                    gameboards are used for important decision making, which always                    must be made by the whole team. the clever card system makes                    for permanent negociation, combining a true cooperative game                    with strong player identities. The counterpart of this high                    fidelity to the book is, of course, a rather straightforward                    system that makes for rather similar games, and may affect the                    replay value of the game.</font></p>                 <center>                   <font color="#000066" size="-1"><img src="lotrp5.jpg" width=367 height=133 align=bottom></font>                  </center>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">The Lord of the Rings is the                    first game by Reiner Knizia in which the theme is strong enough                    to hide the system - though the system is, as usual, very clever.                    It is also the first cooperation game that really works. Furthermore,                    it's the first game inspired by Tolkien's universe which is                    worthy of the Books.</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Simple, clever, original, this                    games really recreates the world of Middle Earth, and it is                    an indispensable purchase for all those who, as an adult or                    a teenager, have been enchanted by Tolkien's magic. I'm afraid,                    however, that all others won't find anything in this game.</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">&nbsp;The first expansion,                    "Friends and Foes", brings two new board into the game, Bree                    and Isengard, as well as some friends and some foes who make                    the quest a bit more difficult.</font></p>               </td>             </tr>             <tr>                <td valign=top bgcolor="E6E6E6">                  <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Format: Grosse boite</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Type: jeu de coop&eacute;ration</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Auteur: Reiner Knizia</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">&Eacute;diteur : Kosmos, Hasbro,                    FFG &amp; Sophisticated Games, 2000</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Nombre de joueurs: 2 &agrave;                    5</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Dur&eacute;e d'une partie:                    90 minutes</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Vous l'aimerez si vous aimez                    </font><font size="-1"><a href="../elfenland/elfenland.html"><font color="#000000">Elfenland</font></a><font color="#000000">,                    </font><a href="../morgenland/morgenland.html"><font color="#000000">Morgenland</font></a><font color="#000000">,                    Dune</font></font></p>                 <p>                  <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>                   <tr>                      <td width=140>                        <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Qualit&eacute; du jeu</font></p>                     </td>                     <td>                        <p><font color="#000000" size="-1"><img src="../4star.gif" width=98 height=18 align=bottom></font></p>                     </td>                   </tr>                   <tr>                      <td width=140>                        <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Graphisme et mat&eacute;riel</font></p>                     </td>                     <td>                        <p><font color="#000000" size="-1"><img src="../5brown.gif" width=98 height=18 align=bottom></font></p>                     </td>                   </tr>                   <tr>                      <td width=140>                        <p><font color="#000000" size="-1">Complexit&eacute;</font></p>                     </td>                     <td>                        <p><font color="#000000" size="-1"><img src="../2red.gif" width=98 height=18 align=bottom></font></p>                     </td>                   </tr>                 </table>               </td>               <td valign=top bgcolor="E6E6E6">                  <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Format: Big box</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Genre: Cooperation game</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Author: Reiner Knizia</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Publisher: Kosmos, Hasbro,                    FFG &amp; Sophisticated Games, 2000</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1"># of players : 2 to 5</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Playing time: 90 minutes</font></p>                 <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">You'll like it if you like                    </font><font size="-1"><a href="../elfenland/elfenland.html"><font color="#000066">Elfenland</font></a><font color="#000066">,                    </font><a href="../morgenland/morgenland.html"><font color="#000066">Morgenland</font></a><font color="#000066">,                    Dune</font></font></p>                 <p>                  <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>                   <tr>                      <td width=140>                        <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">The game itself</font></p>                     </td>                     <td>                        <p><font color="#000066" size="-1"><img src="../4star.gif" width=98 height=18 align=bottom></font></p>                     </td>                   </tr>                   <tr>                      <td width=140>                        <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Graphics and components</font></p>                     </td>                     <td>                        <p><font color="#000066" size="-1"><img src="../5brown.gif" width=98 height=18 align=bottom></font></p>                     </td>                   </tr>                   <tr>                      <td width=140>                        <p><font color="#000066" size="-1">Complexity level</font></p>                     </td>                     <td>                        <p><font color="#000066" size="-1"><img src="../2red.gif" width=98 height=18 align=bottom></font></p>                     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