Cave Dragon wrote:
I think you just need to find a place that has a lot of GW. My local store has both Warhammers, Star Wars Legion, etc. Never got around to trying those, but ME SBG is amazing... So I am happy.
I appreciate the encouragement, but I've pretty much long since resigned myself to just collecting. It would be great to find some other people interested in playing, but it doesn't appear to be in the cards.
I've checked out all the game stores in my area (I'm in the midwest), and none of them have a strong GW presence. The nearest GW store is an hour and a half drive, and there's no LOTR interest there either. I've known a few 40k players, but they're mainly interested in recruiting more 40k players, rather than expanding into LOTR.