Modified art

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Some of the artwork featuring on the cards seems to have been altered for the release of the game.
Let's start what might become another interesting series on artwork details ... with

Palantir of Osgiliath:
The left image is a scan from the print which is/was available from Ed Beard's website and various (online) shops. Looks like there cannon hatches as well as clouds of gunfire at the ships' broadsides (as well as, as if they're firing at each other with cannons. Clearly nothing we've heard of in Middle-earth so far. Might have been a reason for ICE to photoshop the clouds away from the scene. Also the htaches have disappeared. The image on the right hand side is the remastered version, but it's identical to the original.

(PS I wasn't aware of that yet when I held the presentation at Lure XXV, just realised it afterwards)

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The Way Is Shut

The left panel is a scan from a print I bought form Ted Nasmith a few years ago. Looks like in the original version Gandalf appeared in the door of Moria, looking back to the watcher in the pool. Gandalf's silhouette is no longer visible neither on the card image nor on the jigsaw (even this shows the scene in greater detail).

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Magic Ring of Guile

That's a small alteration which, AFAIK, appears only on some (German) cards: The original shows a bit of reflection of the gold ring on the leather glove above (right). For some reason that was removed for some of the cards (left).

[Mordakai]

Not really a modified art, but more of a curiosity. What or who is the thing on the top left side of minion Moria?

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Army of the Dead

The original riders (why is it riders, by the way, did the dead come with undead horses, too?) looked quite alive and where put behind a veil of mist afterwards.