Hi, I'm GondorianDotCom aka Gondorian aka GDC!

I don't update this website much any more, as I've been busy making over 17,000 posts on the Shadow Era official site, as well as making various tools for players of the game (e.g. deckbuilders).

If you are looking for anything related to Shadow Era (if not, why not?!?), then you really are best off visiting shadowera.net. It's run by a fantastic team of people, which is growing every day.

But if you are interested in viewing content that was predominantly made about ten years ago, then please be my guest to have a look around here!

This site is mainly about the Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game. but I am steadily building up content related to Shadow Era TCG.

Quite Old Updates:

• 13th September 2011 - Shadow Era 1.27 is finally out for iOS. Update your iPhone/iPod/iPad versions now!

• 10th September 2011 - I am running the first Shadow Era 1.27 Tournament at the moment, with prizes sponsored by the makers of the game. Sign-ups are now closed, but contact me if you want to take part in any future tournaments.

• 8th September 2011 - After meeting the legendary Jimmy Wales, I created the Shadow Era Wikia site. Please feel free to register and start improving the content.

• 2nd September 2011 - I added a handy frame-based page for the Shadow Era 40-card Leagues, which allows you to access the chatroom, test server, live server and league website all from one browser window. I have also integrated the "forum-stalker", so you can see when Forum users are online. If your browser can handle frames, I highly recommend you check out this page.

• 1st September 2011 - I run and host the unofficial Shadow Era 40-card Leagues, with prizes sponsored by Wulven Studios (the makers of Shadow Era).

• 15th August 2011 - I have made two "helper" frame-based webpages for Shadow Era players: the free Test Server with chatroom and the Live Server with chatroom.

• 3rd July 2011 - I now host the unofficial Shadow Era 40-card Ladder. There are no prizes currently; it's all about the challenge and bragging rights.

• 29th April 2011 - It's been a LONG time since I updated this site, but I am back now to share news of another great CCG/TCG called Shadow Era. It is played exclusively via digital media, using clients on iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows or most web browsers, and is completely free to register and play with a preconstructed starter deck. You win extra cards through playing games against AI or other players over the net, or you can accelerate your card pool's growth by spending money. (If you do choose to spend money, it is much more sensible pricing than other CCGs out there like Magic: The Gathering and the now dead LOTROTCG). What are you waiting for?

• 20th August 2005 - I've been so busy, I've not been playing LOTRTCG much, but I have added Bloodlines boosters to my LOTR TCG booster pack simulator.

• 11th June 2005 - The second part of the first article in my Evolution of a Deck series is finally up!

• 2nd May 2005 - I've just added the first part of the first article in my Evolution of a Deck series.

• 17th April 2005 - I have finally completed my Why Pay For Virtual Trading Cards? article.

• 3rd April 2005 - I've added Black Rider boosters to my extremely popular LOTR TCG booster pack simulator.

• 5th January 2005 - LOTROTCG Guilds are now live. Contact me if you want to join my guild for players in the UK and mainland Europe.

• 1st June 2004 - One of my best LOTR decks ever is now listed online, along with indepth strategy. Check out Doubling Rangers, Dunland Dangers now.

• 16th May 2004 - I've now listed my offline collection of LOTRTCG rares.

• 15th May 2004 - I've got a complete card list for LOTRTCG (including Reflections), which can be sorted by number, name or culture. Each card links to a full size image.

• 24th April 2004 - I'm happy to announce that I am now the webmaster for Dragons Den, a UK company specialising in selling collectable card games.

• 19th April 2004 - I've added some more decks to my LOTRTCG Decks section, including Pipeweed/Discard and Rohan/Threat Nazgul.

• 6th March 2004 - I've filled out all of the Music section, including Favourite Bands and links to some good band discussion forums.

• 26th Feb 2004 - I've PHP-ised my website for faster maintenance. The irony is that it's taken me two weeks to achieve this! (Updates should be quicker from now on though.)

• 6th Feb 2004 - I added my Lord of the Rings TCG Booster Pack Simulator (and then later removed box and pack images at Decipher's request).