Are you a player or collector? I love my LE and consider myself both. I am glad I don't have to choose at least not yet on any of my games. The games I love I want in the best condition and an LE if possible.

You will have great trouble replacing your LE and shipping will not make it cheap.

You need to play the hell out of anything you are thinking of moving it for before you sell the lotr le and get rid of it for it imo.

I have an LE that is a keeper. I doubt I get rid of that any time soon. I personally would (and have, actually) just save up for another or sell something else to get a fast DMD.

Sell or trade. You can get some goods for that

Most likely me

No matter what you are playing pinball! Maybe it's best to free that money up and play the field so to speak. Keep your wife and get rid of the expensive mistress while enjoying variety with the funds you free up!

I sold a LOTR LE a few years ago. At times I regret selling it, but at the time I needed the $$ for a house I own in California. Looking back, I made the right move, but I wish I had the machine too. There are still LOTR LEs out there that can be had so I think you'll be able to find one again in the future. Your location in Canada makes it a bit more difficult as well too.

If you want a fast game, then sell the LE since the TSPP scratches the same itch for you so to speak.

I'm in my LOTR transition phase. The time between selling mine and buying my next copy of it. I consider it one of the best games ever built. But that doesn't mean you have to. If you can afford to, pull the batteries and wrap it up in moving blankets somewhere. Then wait a few months. Flip some batteries in it and change the settings (see where I was going there?). Make it harder than factory to collect the fellowship, open the outlanes a notch, make it a bit steeper than you had it before. If you love it when it comes back, play on player. If not, shine it up and sell it. Not everyone likes the same games, and maybe it is just time to move it on for you.

I sold LOTR LE recently.
Same as you,I found that it was played the least out of my games.
I new I would be in for a long game,if I started one.
It did look pretty,but I seldom played it anymore.
Met LE,STLE are a couple of games I had,that I played way more than LOTR.

I miss seeing it in it's spot,but that's about it.

Dan

LOTR LE doesn't play any differently than the original, apart from the shaker effect. If you need room/money and want a different type of pin, then sell. You can always get another LOTR, and can always clean/adjust it to get it playing great as needed. If you're hung up on the LE thing and looking at a pristine game, more than playing one, then keep the LE I guess. I don't subscribe to that mentality--for me, I like my games playing as smooth as silk with everything responsive, and any dings or scratches don' other me at all.

Thought this was going to be kaneda's thread for a sec.

"If you love it, set it free." Pinsider Rommy was in the same situation, and he decided to set his LOTR free. Took it on a nice drive in the back of his pick-up truck. The LOTR was ecstatic. Having spent most of its life inside a cardboard box, then trapped in a single room in a house for years, it was yearning to breathe free. Wind in its backbox, cruising down the road without a care in the world, the LOTR decided to leave its master. At the next turn it leaped out of the pick-up and dashed away to St. Louis. Rommy didn't hear from LOTR for a long time.

A year later the LOTR wandered back home to Arkansas. Rommy and LOTR were reunited and lived happily ever after, even though the LOTR had had some work done in the meantime.

sell the LE since many on here think it's worth more, and rebuy an original. That's what i'd do. I still like the original better, Since I like the figures better, and do not want to own a backglass that is irreplaceable which doesn't look good in the first place.