"Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign."
So writes Shamus Young, beginning his own epic hybrid of Lord of the Rings and D&D, DM of the Rings. It starts here, and has 144 pages, encompassing most of the major plot points from the LoTR movies, but in a way you've never seen them before! It starts well, and actually gets funnier as it goes along. If you're not sure you want to read the whole thing, these are a few of my favourite strips:
Happy Halloween
Uphill Battle
New Dimensions in Storage
Our Once and Future Party Leader
A Brief History of You
A Minor Omission
Hold Your Horses
There and Back Again
Schrodinger's Familiar
Luck Thief
Elfophobic
Thanks to Niels for pointing me to it. I haven't laughed so much in ages.
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That's hilarious! I think I'll have a lot of fun reading through those. Reminds me of a bit from an online comic I read when it satirizing the world of warcraft thing - I cramped up laughing at this one: http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080811
Thanks for the link, Lemon-thing. Do you watch The Guild? It has some flaws but it's often brilliant: http://www.watchtheguild.com/
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