This is the post which stops the ball from making it all the way around the orbit and instead goes into the VUK for the Path of the Dead.

It seems to activate randomly but I'm guessing there is something that triggers it. Also, my post works but often when during gameplay the ball may graze the post or something but the post doesn't slow the ball enough to have it drop into the VUK.

The reason I ask is that oftentimes during a game I find it hard to get the ball up to the POTD and almost always start the fellowship and two towers mb's way earlier and easier than RotK.

I just tried putting a Cliffy on mine but it was too wide and would not allow the post to pop up. Too bad as I've been thinking about doing this solution for the last 2 weeks but just got around to it tonight...unsuccessfully.

Also, weirdly, I can't find it written on the playfield. Perhaps I'm blind.

It make me wonder how much mine gets activated if I hit either orbit shot it pretty much always goes around or hits the tower. Another strange thing is that this is my 2nd LOTR and the first one I had numerous scores in the 300 million but this one my grand champ score is only 78 million. I've put a lot of the choices on "easy" in the menu but I still suck.