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As the title says, I'm thinking about starting an Elven army for LoTR. Any advice where I should start?

You'll definitely want to get a few sets of the Warriors of the Last Alliance set. You get some nice plastic Elven warriors.(http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1500410a)

In addition, you'll want a set of blisters for the High Elf spearmen (these cool dudes http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1670068a). You'll probably want about as many of these as you have Elven Blade models.

To lead your force, consider taking either an elven captain or Elrond himself.

Finally, you may want some Rivendell Cavalry which should be coming out in the not too distant future.

This gives you a great core of troops. What are fantastic about the Elves is that you don't need too many of them and each one is a total badass.

The rules would be in both the Hobbit big rulebook as well as the Free Peoples book.

Don't know the current rules for SBG as I haven't played it in 8yrs, but as for getting an army together, there a lot of WotLA Elves going cheap on ebay at the moment; would save you forking out on full boxes and being left with loads of spare Numenorians.

Cheers for the heads up!

And thanks, ExNoctem, I'll take a look at that!

The rivendell knights list does not have elves on foot as a choice. You would have to take 2 lists as an allied force. So elrond, the knights, knight captain and lindir allied with the other elf list would be how they are run

Ok, thanks Motograter. I shall have a look into that!

Also check amazon, they still have some of the old 24 models boxes in stock.

Really? That would be very useful! Cheers for the heads up, Sigvatr!

Well, I'd recommend taking a character, but they're all so good!
Glorfindel is very good (3 attacks, 3 wounds, 3 might, 3 fate, Fight 7)
Basic Elrond is also very good, but not just for straight-up fighting- basically glorfindel, but 40 points more expensive, with defence 7, but fight 6- he does, however, have some very useful magical powers.
Elladan and Elrohir are good all-rounders- 3 attacks, fight 6, only 2 wounds and 2 fate but there's two of them for roughly the price of glorfindel.
Gil-galad is very good at taking on monsters (fight 9, +1 to his wound rolls, defence 7), and equal to glorfindel in most ways (attacks, might, wounds) but only has one fate, and also isn't alive in the third age.
Really, it depends what you're army's most likely to be facing- hordes or elite armies?
If it's hordes, I'd consider Elladan and Elrohir or Elrond, if it's elite, Glorfindel or Gil-galad.

I was thinking Elrond, and maybe adding one or two of the others at a later stage.

 Castiel wrote:
Really? That would be very useful! Cheers for the heads up, Sigvatr!

Good luck

Be advised, though, that I can only speak on behalf of the German amazon...one of our gaming group recently bought two boxes of Uruk Hais at amazon for 20€ each (24 models per box!)

You may also want to check out LGS that haven't shifted a LOTR product for years. They may have them. It's how I started off my Mordor army (with 24 Morannon and 24 Mordor Orcs).

Hobbycraft, Amazon and ebay will be a gold mine for old LOTR stuff

You will need thousands of elfs to defeat the madaf###er sauron

As a note, the Rivendell knights will be in feb with grim hammerers. And you can do a all mounted knight/elrond army and everyone has a bow. His list lets you by pass the "only 1/3rd of army can have bows" as they come equiped with it and he can take no other troops as of yet. Though knights are expensive.