Quoted from ninjabones:I have both... Wife absolutely addicted to lotr. It's gotten a bit old for me. Spiderman never gets old. Great flow. Our third pin, IJ, never gets old either. My only regret was sellng AFM to a friend thinking the layout and play was too similar to spiderman. Wish i would have kept that pin.
Having SM, MM or AFM together, to me, is redundant. All play too similarity to justify having more than 1 in a small to medium sized collection.
In relation to the topic, I would say that these two games are Stern's best. Would go SM personally as the LOTR theme does nothing for me, but you really can't go wrong here.