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3:00 PM on 04.23.2009 | Colette Bennett

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Win the Lord of the Rings Online Collector's Edition photo

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Sure does look pretty, doesn't it? Lord of the Rings Online celebrates its 2nd anniversary tomorrow, and what better way can you show your love of all things Middle-Earth than with a brand spanking new copy of the gorgeous Collector's Edition of the game? Destructoid will have more information about how Turbine plans to celebrate coming your way very soon, but in the meantime, how'd you like to win one of these beauties?

Taking one home is simple: just show us how much you love Lord of the Rings. You can do so by taking a photo of yourself in your Gandalf costume, submitting fanart of a Balrog or making a video of you and your friends reenacting the battle at the Black Gate of Mordor. It's up to you, just show us in the comments and please keep it clean. The contest runs through April 30th and is open to resident of North America only.

There's a detailed list of what is included in this lovely collector's edition after the jump, and we have ten of them to give away. If you want something to get warmed up with, try out a free demo of the game at the official site here and nose around in the new Mines of Moria expansion. I'm counting on you guys for some good entries, now -- make me proud!

The Lord of the Rings Online™ Collector’s Edition:

* Volume I: Shadows of Angmar and Volume II: Mines of Moria

* 3 exclusive tokens that can be exchanged for the player’s choice of 8 different in-game items

* 22” x 22” premium quality cloth map of the Mines of Moria

* Special gold-plated replica of The One Ring complete with chain and pouch

* Mines of Moria poster

* The Lord of the Rings Online Art and Music Collection with the official Mines of Moria Soundtrack

* A full color Collector’s Edition Starter Guide

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44 comments | showing # 1 to 44

VGMari

This is totally not related to the article.

I dig your new icon. Pretty eyes... *___*

Half left

World wide or no?

Silly question really.

PappaDukes

The contest runs through April 30th and is open to all countries.

'nough said?

Bigmoose85

is "peggy" included too?

"I got balls of steel"

Half left

'nough said.

I was blinded by my cynicism.

bluexy

I have this already! wheeeee

loki d20

I _really_ respect what Turbine has done with this game, it's just that I get bored very fast every time I play it :(

I wish as much respect went into their D&D game.

aaronf

I like LOTRO. I think it's the best fantasy MMO out there. However, I really don't care for fantasy MMOs anymore.

Zodiac Eclipse

I just did a LOTR related monthly musing, I think that should count as a submission.

Edarios

too busy with WoW.

Half left

My entry

Keep it clean? Meh.

Also, it was meant to be a .gif so there's no sound. Sorry for the fail.

Chronic Logic

I don't play this game, and I sure don't want to play a monthly fee for it either. But the extra goodies do look nice.

opeth2112

I'm not skilled with pictures or video, but I can type. I've read all the books, waited in line overnight for tickets to the movies, then waited in line overnight again for the movies, have some of the ORIGINAL action figures prior to the typical movie swag, played The Hobbit on C-64, received a replica of Glamdring for christmas from my wife, have a stand up of Gandalf (with a party hat) next to my big screen TV that I use to watch the DVDs on a regular basis, watched ALL the extra content from all the DVDs, had an in depth conversation with my wife explaining the connection between Led Zeppelin (her favorite band) and Tolkien, had LOTR music played on a harp at our wedding, know the lyrics to 'Where there's a whip, there's a way", my mom wears elf ears on a regular basis, when someone does something stupid - I say "your love of the halfling leaf has clouded your mind", get goosebumps just thinking about it right now, can spell New Zealand, speak lines of dialogue from the movie when I see the characters in another movie, annoy people watching said movies with my dialogue, think that Bashir was simply 'misunderstood', played Moria (rogue-like game) for hours on end (though I never came across the dreaded capitol 'B'...hopefully that won't sway your opinion of me)

McKillagan

That is a collector's edition to rule them all! I should try to do something for this. LOTR really is one of the greatest stories ever told.

retroNutZ

nice branding and packaging, reminds me when stuff like this use to matter.

16bitmonster

@half left.. Fucking awesome. <3

Krahsh

Half_Left, I'm so gonna spank you at this. BAARING IT!

bassec

This would be awesome!

traskbt

My high school did "The Hobbit" (dramatized by Patricia Gray) my senior year in high school (spring '08). I had never gone out for a play before, but seeing as it was my senior year *and* it was *The Hobbit* I had to audition.
I ended up getting the lead role, that's right, Mr. Bilbo Baggins himself. Follows is a picture of the seniors cast in the show (it was a rather large cast, but not too many seniors). I'm being held up by the rest, if you couldn't tell by my gloriously hairy feet!

http://yfrog.com/6gn5182613608556297257j

baldur

Loved the books, loved the movies, and now I love the game. I've been playing for over a year and I still need to upgrade so I can experience Moria.

Magnalon

Lord of the Rings is a passion of mine, including somewhat of a guilty pleasure in terms of the LOTR games. It seems no matter how full of faults they are, I love them.

Aside from the games, I read the books at a young age (Hobbit when I was 5). I dug the fantasy-feel, and honestly, LOTR is why I like fantasy so much as an adult. Non-chibi Elves also were popularized by Tokien, and many other Demon-esque incarnations of popular myths and legends have become more real than ever before. To this day, if I had to pick the "coolest demon ever", it would be the Balrog. Tolkien's backstory on the Balrog in Two Towers is amazing, and they need to make a pre-Hobbit/pre-LOTR movie, like now.

It also helps that my wife and I still have LOTR 1-3 marathons every month, and we play the game together almost every day. Why? Because we love the lore; we love Howard Shores score which is in-tact with the game; we have voice-crushes on Hugo Weaving (who is in the game).

To show my dedication to LOTR, I give you

My first-ever blog post (surprise, LOTR related)

My review of LOTR: Conquest

And this pic

Suffice to say, if I win the game, I'll be playing it non-stop!

Magnalon

Oh, and I call my wedding ring "The One Ring", plus it looks like it.

Lanzapan

painting i did for my art final.

ScottyG

See this ring?

Yeah... I wear it... down below (in the interests of being clean :P).

Really gives the poem a new meaning doesn't it?

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

KyleGamgee

I've read the Lord of the Rings 6 times. I had to take a Sci-Fi / Fantasy Literature class just to force myself to read something else.

The picture is from when my friend and I saw the midnight screening of The Return of the King. Samwise Gamgee is my favorite character, so I dressed up as him. You might recognize that from my Dtoid name: KyleGAMGEE

I own the Lord of the Rings version of Monopoly (the best, most superior version of Monopoly due a gameplay option exclusive to the LotR version), and the Lord of the Rings super-complicated-board-game (which Dexter345 promised he'd play with me.)

KyleGamgee

I know Hobbits don't wear shoes and socks. It was December. Also, I dressed up for all 3 of the movies, but the picture is from when we saw Return of the King.

Magnalon

@KyleGamgee
LOTR MONOPOLY 4 LIFE! Best version ever. Also I would hit that LOTR expansive board game up so hard.

Kudos for looking like a more mature version of Sean Astin!

Half left

"The contest runs through April 30th and is open to resident of North America only."

This is new.

What a surprise.

/sarcasm.

Jerkapotamus

My entry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax1LnS-hprk&feature=channel_page

Thank you for the contest. It was fun to make. :)

HammerShark

@Collette

Did you guys get my e-mail for the godfather swag?
Hope it didn't go into spam...
Anywho I had fun making this between commercials,
look forward to more contests. ^_^

HammerShark

Colette (sorry, misspelled got to remember one L in Colette).

Colette Bennett

@Hammershark -- We sure did! Glad you enjoyed this...we have many more on the way :)

Jack Maverick

I honestly wish I had some costumes LotR-related, because I probably could have pulled off a good Aragorn, but I'm not that much of a nerd. However, I do have two movies regarding LotR. One is, of course, the first movie directed by Peter Jackson. VHS copy, spectacular, eh? However, the other one may be an unknown gem to some of you.

The second picture contains the 1978 130-minute cartoon film directed by some guy named Ralph Bakshi. It's all sorts of old and probably not noticed by many people. Why you may ask? Just look as my face in the second picture. It's my disgust with how bad the film ended up being.

Yeah. That bad.

Atlas

I am such a Tolkien Fan I own almost every LOTR game, every book, and every movie in VHS and DVD.

ALSO, I have hobbit feet and that is more awesome than everything else combined. I grew those feet hairs just to emulate my hero; Bilbo Baggins.

Atlas

Whoops, double posted that foot picture. I meant to also post this one. Viva la Frodo!

Atlas

Disregard the dates on them it is most certainly not January 9, 2004.... Crappy calendar in it always resets to Jan. 1, 2004 when I replace the batteries.

LostSoulDX

There's my entry. It's the movies paired with the books. The books are quite old. They used to be my mother's.

LostSoulDX

Picture link since it hates me: http://www.demon-web.com/100_0480.JPG

manta

Here's a picture of Frit and his main man Babierto up on Weathertop, you know, that place where that one hobbit got stabbed and that one ranger showed up and dealt suckas.

Later that day Frit went off with one of his buddies and layed down the law on some trolls in the forest.

Here's Frit playing lumberjack.

And finally, here's Frit running with some badass wizard dude and an army of undead to go kick some wight ass.

Sadly, Frit's 10 day trial has expired. All hope for Middle-Earth will be lost.

Unless...

Unless he is able to make his triumphant return, and ensure peace for all the free peoples! All thanks to the amazing crew at Destructoid!

manta

Bonus pic of an AMAZING castle I swam past in Evendim.

This game has some seriously beautiful vistas.

Super Drybones

Because who needs a girlfriend, really!

Magnalon

@Super
Haha good show! I forgot to put my books (and Tolkien Biography)/The Hobbit DVD in my picture :-(

4TL4S

Here is what i managed to whip up. I hope it stands a chance.

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