Have you ever wanted to play as your favorite character from lord of the rings in a chess game? Have you always longed to reenact the battle between good and evil on your chest board? Well with this in lord of the rings chess set you now have your chance!

Each and every character in the set has been painted by hand with incredible attention to detail given. In fact, they weren’t created and painted in the Anne Carlton studio for chess pieces. Many of the famous characters from Tolkien’s story of lord of the rings are represented in the game, including, Frodo Baggins and Lady Arwen of the Elf race.

As with almost all products these days, this chess set is easily found on line and can be purchased from many stores such as Amazon. It currently comes in at about $200, but for such a special, limited edition chess set like this one, it is worth every cent. In addition to the set of pieces, when you buy the products you also receive for free a beautiful case to store the board and pieces in. You also receive a proper vinyl chest board made by the House of Staunton. This alone has a value of $20.00.

There are other versions of the lord of the rings chess sets, including the return of the king set and the fellowship of the ring edition. These two versions are somewhat less expensive than the standard edition, with price tags of about $120 and $110 respectively. However, the ultimate special edition is the lord of the rings collectors chess set, which retails at approximately $500 on amazon. It has as its board a map in 3D of middle earth, complete with scenes and pictures from the exciting cinematic releases. Even the figures were expertly sculpted out of high quality pewter and what is more, each actor actually gave their personal approval of the realism and likeness of the playing piece corresponding to their character in the films! Without a doubt, this will be a collector’s item for many years to come and is unlike any other chess set out there.