qwertyuiop said:

Aiiiieeee! Nooooo! A pox on you and your Halbarad/Ioreth + MT mention. One of the few things (apart from hobbits and squatters) I truely hate about Meccg. Still possibly the best ccg ever made, but that MT-crap gets old, really, really fast.

Who is Eleanor? I'm guessing it's not Sam's daughter as the picture doesn't look very hobbit-ish.

Character created for one of the FFG LotR board games.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=82&esem=1

Picture at bottom of the page, middle left hand side.

Mighty Jim said:

Also she cant be Sam's daughter cause in this game we play events before Bilbo's 111 birthday and Sam's daughter was born after the war of the ring.

There is no other character named Eleanor in Middle-Earth.Elanor was a flower in Lothlorien.

Actually it takes place between the 111th birthday and the days before Frodo and Sam take off. Either way, its a number of years before the birth of Sam's Eleanor. This Eleanor is just a FFG created character who I am guessing they wanted to add to this game for some variety. After all we can only have so many big name heroes before it would get a bit silly.

There's also a distinct lack of female characters in LotR (other than Arwen, Eowyn and Galadriel there aren't any unless you really scrape the barrel and come up with Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Rosie Cotton and Ioreth), so makes sense to have new female characters really.

Mighty Jim said:

Eleanor is one of the heroes from Middle-Earth Quest, same as Thalin and Beravor, both of whom are in this game as well.

I'm assuming the heroes also come out as 3 Dwarf, 3 Elf, 3 Rohan and 3 Gondor/Dunedain. Also 3 females, allows a full female party for a player, which I expect FFG think could be an important factor in attracting women to the game. So all these are reasons for the breakdown used in the core set.

On top of that they don't want to load it too front heavy with the big names. or people will pretty quickly complain about the nobodies being added in each adventure cycle.

An interesting question might be, how long will we have to wait until being able to play a full Hobbit party?

Be interesting to see what the sphere breakdown is for each race.

Dwarf: Leadership - Gloin, Tactic - Gimli and Thalin

Elf: Tactics - Legolas, Spirit - Eleanor, Lore - Glorfindel

Rohan: Leadership - Theodred, Spirit - Eowyn and Dunhere

Gondor: Leadership - Aragorn, Lore - Denethor and Beravor

I'm guessing at race for Thalin, Dunhere, Eleanor and Beravor, based on their names I think that's right.

Eleanor is Gondor Noble. You can see her fairly clearly on page 13.

Also Aragorn is Dunedain Noble Ranger. Not Gondor, which makes sense based on the books and not those movies.

Toqtamish said:

Well that does suprise me what with eleanor being an elvish word. so she is.

Well that's my idea of there being some logic to the initial hero selection, gone for a burton.

cootewards said:

Isn't Sam's daughter spelled Elanor? And therefore the Elvish word would be spelled that way, as well? I think Eleanor is just a nice human name.

Can anyone (or BeardFan) tell what it says on Glorfindel's text? I picked out "Pay _ resources from Glorfindel's pool to..."

Man, Glorfindel kicks butt!

Narsil0420 said:

I am not surprised about that.One Balrog dead and we all know what he did to the Nazguls.His power is too grate and terrible .

From the French rules :

Glorfindel has 12 threat cost, 3 will, 3 attack, 1 defense, 5 hit points.

He is Noble, Noldor and Warrior.

His text says :

Action : spend 1 resource from Glorfindel's pool to heal 1 damage on a character. (Limit : once per turn).

Wow, 12 threat. I do like how they used Noldor as one of the traits.