The pillars and the ceiling of the main hall of the Lonely Mountain look rather similar in these illustrations:

Happy New Year everyone! Ready to take a quiz regarding both MECCG and the Silmarillion as a resource of card actions, topics and titles? Here we go: Who of the Valar and Maiar feature in ME card titles? (except the 5 Wizards) Have a thought (or read the Valaquenta again), screen the card lists and ...

Too bad, this series was available in German, too, but as it's outdated now it has been removed from the TV station's server

Great, thank you! Will certainly pay this exhibition a visit

I had recently been asked by a user of this forum for a trade involving several cards. As they couldn't provide any references I insisted on them shipping first. Now with about a month gone by, the shipment has not arrived and my recent PMs still haven't left my outbox (i.e. haven't been read, obvio...

nico21000 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:57 pm Probably. As there's no date visible on it I aknowledge it's possible.

I bought that repaint 2 years ago (believing it was the original) and asked the artist directly. What I got in response is what I've posted.

The orc painting on the right is not the original but a re-paint that was made years afterwards.

There exist at least 2 other altered versions of Stefano Baldo's works, Beorn and Durin's Bane: I reckon he made these changes some time later, and only digitally. At least the originals of Elf-song and Durin's Bane are as on the cards (see the originals in the Gresinger Museum: https://photos.googl...

Also the other Dwarven rings whose design is discernible in the TW edition have comebacks in the LE and AS editions.

The Dwarven Rings each have their own specific features, i.e. their proper gems. It's nice to see the design from the Wizard's edition's Durin's Ring was not only taken up again by Audrey Corman for the LE's edition, but also by Liz Danforth for the Black Rain image (see also the enlarged detail on ...

Agree

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Army of the Dead

The original riders (why is it riders, by the way, did the dead come with undead horses, too?) looked quite alive and were put behind a veil of mist afterwards.

Magic Ring of Guile

That's a small alteration which, AFAIK, appears only on some (German) cards: The original shows a bit of reflection of the gold ring on the leather glove above (right). For some reason that was removed for some of the cards (left).

The Way Is Shut The left panel is a scan from a print I bought form Ted Nasmith a few years ago. Looks like in the original version Gandalf appeared in the door of Moria, looking back to the watcher in the pool. Gandalf's silhouette is no longer visible neither on the card image nor on the jigsaw (...