Many, many years ago I subscribed to a DeAgostini part work called Battle Games in Middle Earth and over the course of that subscription I built up a veritable horde of Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings miniatures.
I used to love nothing better than to sit down at the kitchen table and spend hours painting (usually to the despair of my poor mum who inevitably wanted to use said table to serve dinner). But then university happened and my little miniatures were boxed up and sat patiently in the loft for oh, about a decade.
I was clearing through all my old boxes a month or so ago and I came across this trove of forgotten treasures - given the time that had passed I figured I should find them a new home and I headed for ebay to determine if it was worth selling them (yes).
But here's the thing, after spending an afternoon painstakingly identifying my entire collection (all 420 of them) I realised that I really didn't want to see them go. I couldn't justify keeping them just to stick them back in the attic so instead I have decided to rediscover my old hobby.
The plan is to work through each force in turn and make it up into a proper army; I never actually played with any of my models and the magazine never provided complete forces so I will definitely need to pick up some extras along the way to make game-legal armies... but then that's part of the fun.
Given my lack of paints (oddly enough my old ones are rather solid now) I have decided to start with a force with a nice simple colour scheme - the denizens of Moria. These guys were never a favourite of mine so I painted very few and they will provide a nice blank canvas to start on.
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