TGN’s Enrico Nardini is always watching over Durin’s folk. TGN’s resident Hobbit freak lists his top five battles from The Hobbit book and its film trilogy that he would like to recreate with miniatures!

From the post:

I am a huge fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and I have been so since I first read the story in third grade. It has had a huge impact on my life. It’s likely to have influenced my love of fantasy adventure gaming and my desire to enter our great hobby in the first place. Now, I should note that I have made an academic study of this particular work. I have created an elementary unit of study (including a children’s play) based on The Hobbit. I’m heavily invested in Tolkien’s original vision, and there was likely no way that Peter Jackson’s interpretation was going to match mine (for better or for worse). That said, Jackson has proved his expertise in filming fantasy battle scenes. Though, The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies has problems, beautiful battle scenes are not among them.

Let’s take a look at 5 battles from either the book or the trilogy (or both) that I would like to game in miniature.