The War of the Ring Anthology
which was included in this Anthology.The War of the Ring Anthology was a collector's product released on 19 October, 2005 with an MESP of $39.95 USD[1].
It consisted of the following:
- 18 cards which had been rewritten in the Elvish Tengwar script
- 1 storage box which could hold up to 600 cards
- 6 War of the Ring Block Booster Packs
- 1 random War of the Ring Block Starter Deck
Announcement
The War of the Ring Anthology for the Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game is packed with treasure that any Lord of the Rings fan will desire! In the collector's storage box, designed to hold over 600 cards, players and collectors will find 18 foil Tengwar language cards, including the best cards from the War of the Ring Block. Also included are a random starter from the War of the Ring Block and six booster packs (two each from Shadows, Black Rider, and Bloodlines).
German Version of the War of the Ring Anthology
German Tengwar cards for the first three Anthology sets were exactly the same as all other languages--namely, the same as the English version (there wasn't much point after all in re-transcribing a language that, realistically, practically no-one could read). However, the German War of the Ring Anthology are in fact transcribed in German, unique to all non-English language tengwar cards.
The German Tengwar cards are noticeably more amateur than the hand-written ones made by Daniel Reeve. The mode used doesn't appear to follow any known Tengwar mode, meaning that the authors likely just assigned letters to tengwar at random. There is also a curious combination of vowels-as-glyphs and vowels-as-diacritic, possibly indicating that diacritics were used as direct translations of German diacritics. On top of this, the lore font appears to have some missing letters, meaning that at times it will default to the game text font's letters, causing a jarring formatting switch partway through words.
Seeing as these cards were only "discovered" to exist in 2020, it's unknown whether any other overseas printers produced their own versions as well.
Tengwar Cards Included in The War of the Ring Anthology
Gallery
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A WotR Anthology Box -
An opened WotR Anthology Box, showcasing the Sealed tengwar cards
References
- ↑ Original Decipher announcement of The War of the Ring Anthology as preserved on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20070318204907/http://lotrtcg.fanhq.com/Articles/Article.aspx?ID=862
