About a year ago, we all
watched The War of the Rohirrim over at John’s for movie night; soon
after (Dec. 20, 2024) I discovered that they had made a few action figures in
connection with it. I put them on my Amazon Wish List but passed them by for
months. There was always something more urgent to get.
Well, at the beginning of
this December I noticed that they had all been deeply discounted, altogether
going from $80 down to a little over $30. Also, of course, a DVD of the movie
had since come out; it was only about $9. I don’t know if it was because my
unpleasant assessment of the whole rigamarole was fading, or that I thought things probably
weren’t going to get any cheaper, or that they were Tolkien for a
certain value of Tolkien, or even that I hadn’t bought any toys for a while,
against my better judgement I went ahead and ordered the lot.
I bought them all in one
fell swoop; why Amazon decided to send them in two separate shipments is beyond
me. Today the first lot arrived: The War of the Rohirrim DVD (a rickety
kind of production) and Shank, the peripheral Orc character. Whether I will
open the action figures right away or keep them in their packaging (at least
for a bit) is still up in the air. I suppose it depends on how eager I am to
put together that Build-a-Troll figure.
The second lot should arrive
tomorrow. You can’t quite tell from the pictures, but their scale is
disappointingly small; Shank is only 4 inches tall. They are McFarlane Toys.
“Ah, my ridiculously
circuitous plan is one quarter complete!”
