{"id":301668,"date":"2025-12-06T06:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301668\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T06:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:28:08","slug":"this-lord-of-the-rings-chess-set-is-the-gift-you-didnt-know-you-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301668\/","title":{"rendered":"This Lord of the Rings Chess Set Is the Gift You Didn’t Know You Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always loved The Lord of the Rings. I wouldn’t necessarily say I’m fanatical about it, though. I already own copies of the books and the movies, so I’m not usually swayed by the endless barrage of Lord of the Rings gifts<\/a> the internet seems to throw my way. I do really like the look of this Battle for Middle-Earth Chess set, however. I’ve seen a lot of really cool chess sets<\/a> in my day, but this one appears to be surprisingly well done for how affordable it is. I don’t even play that much chess and I’ve found myself adding it to my Christmas wishlist this year.<\/p>\n

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The Lord of The Rings Chess Set: Battle for Middle-Earth<\/p>\n

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Made by The Noble Collection.<\/p>\n

This chess set is made by The Noble Collection, which I do actually have some experience with already. They create all kinds of gifts for various popular fandoms like The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. You might be most familiar with its collection of Harry Potter wands, which the company first began releasing back in 2004. The Noble Collection is generally known for making high quality products at affordable prices, including a variety of chess sets<\/a> like this one. There’s even a high-end $500 version of this same thing<\/a> that is absolutely glorious, though that is way out of my price range.<\/p>\n

What’s included<\/p>\n

The Battle for Middle-Earth includes all of the same chess pieces you’d expect, but modeled after characters from the LotR movies. The chess board itself is 18.5 by 18.5 inches and features stone textures and ring inscriptions. It’s made of cardboard, rather than wood, which helps bring down the price to where it is. You’ll also get two separate bags to hold the pieces when you aren’t using them. Here’s a quick breakdown of what characters represent what pieces on the board:<\/p>\n

Pawns (Eye of Sauron, Hobbit Door)Rooks (Mordor Castles, Gates of Argonath)Knights (Nazg\u00fbl, Aragorn and Arwen)Bishops (Gollum, Frodo)Queens (Saruman, Galadriel)Kings (Sauron, Gandalf)More Lord of the Rings Gifts<\/p>\n

If you’re on the hunt for more Lord of the Rings gifts like this one, we have found quite a few. There’s the deluxe illustrated version of the books, Lord of the Rings puzzles<\/a>, board games, and even a LEGO book nook<\/a> available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’ve always loved The Lord of the Rings. I wouldn’t necessarily say I’m fanatical about it, though. I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-301668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}