Since then, the online community has moved onto a large number of unofficial websites and forums for Lord of the Rings players, many of which were already in existence before the closure of Games Workshop's forums: these include 'The Last Alliance', with over 6400 registered members (rebuilt in 2009 due to the host deleting their server for financial reasons), 'The One-Ring', with over 5000, and ' ', with over 2400 members. Cover of The Tengwar Beacon, a hobby magazine produced by the online community Prior to the closure of Games Workshop's official forum in November 2006, the site had 3000 forum posts per day and well over 300,000 registered users. Current state of play Overview of rulesets. The same is true for pieces from other manufacturers. However, due to the licensing agreements between and, pieces of models for the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game are not allowed to be combined with other model lines for official tournaments or conversion awards. Common household items and hobby materials such as, and can be transformed into ruins from the Second Age, woodland terrain, or the rocky wild of with the addition of plasticard, putty, and a bit of patience and skill., often depicting scenes from the film and books, bring terrain and conversion skills together. Though Games Workshop makes terrain kits available, many hobbyists prefer to make their own elaborate and unique set pieces. Terrain is a very important part of play. These are often entered into contests at sponsored tournaments and similar gaming events, such as the or the One Ring Awards. They are also encouraged to further modify their miniatures using parts from other kits and models (known as 'Bitz' to players), modeling putty, or whatever the modeler can scrounge up. Since the and assembled by the player, players are often encouraged to design their own paint schemes, such as coloring them differently and so on, as well as using the pre-designed ones displayed in the various books. Mixing parts from different models is a popular method of conversion (a converted miniature ).

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