Lord of the Rings Pinball There and Back Again Music

Gollum: "My Precious!"

The Lord of the Rings is a 2003 pinball game designed past George Gomez, programmed by Keith Johnson, and released past Stern Pinball. Based on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, it naturally encompasses all of the major characters and events of the epic. Assemble the Fellowship, fight the Balrog, knock down Barad-Dûr, and face the Eye of Sauron. Players who manage to suffer all iii multiball modes (i for each part of the trilogy) will be able to finally Destroy the Ring. Only only the all-time warriors tin ascend into Valinor...

Along with sound clips from the movies, Elijah Wood and John Rhys-Davies reprise their roles every bit Frodo and Gimli, respectively, to provide custom speech for this game.

The Lord of the Rings was re-released in Dec 2009 as The Lord of the Rings: Limited Edition, which includes a signed playfield, aureate-plated and contumely metalwork, a mirrored aureate backglass, and software and hardware back up for a shaker motor. Only 500 units of the limited edition were made.

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This pinball demonstrates the following tropes:

• Anti-Frustration Features: Do poorly on the first two assurance, and the Dwarven ring reward will automatically be set to "Start Fellowship [multiball]". If you really shit the bed, then ball 3 starts with Actress Ball being lit.
• Artifact of Doom/Ring of Power: The One Ring, which must exist destroyed during "Destroy the Ring".
• Biting-the-Mitt Humor: An Easter Egg replaces the "Bash the Balrog" manner with "Bash Gary", a reference to Stern Pinball president Gary Stern. ^spoiler In attract mode, press both flippers, and so press left 6 times, correct in one case, left ix times, right, left 6 times, right once, left nine times, and correct. The Balrog will roar. Then offset a game and get "Bash Balrog" from the Mystery Accolade on the 3rd ball or three upwards-kicker shots. The brandish will testify Gary Stern instead of the Balrog.
• Combos: The "Destroy the Witch King" mode requires the player to shoot either the left ramp or right loop, followed by a right ramp shot to defeat the Witch Rex.
• Evil Tower of Ominousness: The 2 Towers.
• Gotta Catch Them All:
  • Collect all Fellowship members to start Fellowship of the Ring Multiball.
  • Collect 5,000 souls to start Return of the King Multiball.
  • Collecting all six Elf Gifts is one of the requirements for Valinor Multiball.
• Limited Special Collector'due south Ultimate Edition
• Ramp Jump: The Band Ramp, located in the center.
• Existent Vocal Theme Melody
• Score Multiplier: There'due south the Jackpot multipliers during Two Towers and Return of the Male monarch Multiballs, likewise equally the 2x Scoring gift, and during Gollum Multiball, you can score twice (Smeagol) or half (Gollum) the value. The player tin can score an 84x(!) Jackpot during Two Towers Multiball past combining many of these, simply information technology is difficult to do.
• Shout-Out: Bordering on Easter Egg territory - getting "Big Points" from an elf gift while 2x Scoring is running prompts the game to say "The prize is doubled!", alluding to Indiana Jones: The Pinball Chance using the verbal aforementioned quote when lighting a doubled jackpot. Developer Keith Johnson confirms it equally intentional hither.
• Skill Shot: At that place are three skill shots: the Belfry Skill Shot, the Flipper Skill Shot, and the Lane Skill Shot.
  • The Tower Skill Shot requires the role player to plunge the ball into the Orthanc Belfry for points, and to ship the ball to the Path of the Expressionless.
  • The Lane Skill Shot requires the player to plunge the ball over the O-R-C lanes for points.
  • The Flipper Skill Shot requires the thespian to fully plunge the ball, and and so quickly shoot the right ramp for points.
• Spelling Bonus: O-R-C increases the bonus multiplier, while Thou-E-E-P lights a lock for Two Towers Multiball.
• Take That, Audition!: Tilting causes the game to insult you:

  Treebeard: "At that place is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery."

• Whole Episode Flashback: "At that place and Dorsum Once more", which revisits all of the Ring Modes.
• Wizard Mode: Valinor Multiball, which is every bit difficult to accomplish every bit The Simpsons Pinball Political party's "Super Duper Mega Extreme Wizard Mode". It tin only exist enabled if the player completes all iii multiball modes, achieving "There and Back Again", collecting all of the Gifts of the Elves, and Destroying the Band (the latter which must exist washed last).
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: The Valinor Multiball teasers are shown after completing Destroy the Ring, if the player hasn't met the requirements to accomplish information technology.

  Valinor awaits, simply there is more withal to do. — Teaser to Valinor Multiball

• You Shall Not Pass!: As in the motion picture, Gandalf shouts "YOU... SHALL Not... PASS!" upon defeating the Balrog in Fellowship Multiball.

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