← the whole library · view on BGG ↗
Risk: The Lord of the Rings (2002)
players 2–4 players (best at 4)
playing time 120 min
ages 9+
weight 2.27 / 5
BGG rank 5594
BGG rating 5.95
designers Stephen Baker Jean-René Vernes Barry Yearsley
publishers Hasbro Parker Brothers Winning Moves Germany Winning Moves UK Ltd.
categories Adventure Fantasy Movies / TV / Radio theme Novel-based Territory Building Wargame
mechanics Area Majority / Influence Area Movement Campaign / Battle Card Driven Dice Rolling
my copy English edition 2002 · 2002
publishers Hasbro Parker Brothers
languages English
A Lord-of-the-Rings-themed version of Risk, with the following differences:
The map is of Middle Earth, and the tokens represent armies of that fictional world.
(Note that in this "Two Towers edition", the first version of the game, the map is incomplete, unless you own the expansion. For the newer version with complete map, see the reimplementation of this, the "trilogy edition".)
You play either good or evil.
Leaders, missions and sites of power have been added.
The One Ring acts as a timing mechanism, when it leaves the board, the game ends.
Components for this "Two Towers edition":
("trilogy edition" has 90 per army)
40 Elven Archers/Orcs
12 Riders of Rohan/Dark Riders
6 Eagles/Cave Trolls
2 shields per color
Gameboard
4 Complete armies in different colors: (60 per color)
42 Territory Cards (9 Good, 9 Evil, 24 Neutral)
2 Wild Cards
40 Adventure Cards
The One Ring
3 Red Dice
2 Black Dice
where it lives Library Kallax · A2