LotR on-line gambling

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Originally Posted by Rumil

Agree all!

Now I'm not against a little gambling for fun, for example a tenner on the National, the inevitable World Cup sweepstake or the lottery. But these sites, like the big casinos, make serious money from people that have become major gambling addicts and lose much more in life than their money.

OK, so LoTR gambling won't appeal to the hard-core but tempt in a fair few youngsters I expect. A nasty cynical business!

I don't have a problem with small scale gambling - I've won on the Euromillions draw twice in the last two weeks (eleven quid last week & seven quid this week ), but why should Tolkien's creation be reduced to this level? Can we not have some things which aren't sacrificed completely to the profit motive? You know - have the Happy Meals & the Kinder Surprise toys, the Action Figures, all the tie-in tat we've seen over the years, but could we at least not sell Tolkien's creation to the gambling, drug or sex industry - is that too much to ask?