It certainly played out that the Dwarf blew out first, the human may blow out next, the elf is riding a very fine line and the Hobbit will hold out a good long time.

That sounds…pretty accurate compared to Tolkien’s writings. Maybe the human would have gone first in actual Tolkien, but this isn’t far off. The Hobbit holding out is entirely appropriate.

I am loving the sound of how character development works in this game. I’m having a hard time finding games that give players meaningful choices about turning from good to bad and then making concrete and interesting things happen because of those choices. Sounds like this hits that mark pretty well, especially if you let the player run their own madness scene (which I’m entirely in favor of – losing control to the GM is one of my least favorite RPG tropes).