Remote said:
I smell a RotK obsession...

Who's who in the chess game?
No, no obsession. My parents just thought it looked nifty.
The pieces are cheap plastic, but the white side is coloured to look like aged ivory, and the black looks like cast bronze.
On the white side:
King - Aragorn
Queen - Arwen
Bishops - Gandalf and Frodo
Knights - Merry and Pippin
Rooks - Legolas and Gimli
Pawns - 8 Sams
On the black side:
King - Tower of Barad-Dur (complete with little All-Seeing Eye!)
Queen - generic Ring-Wraith
Bishops - Pair of Gollums
Knights - Pair of Warg Riders
Rooks - Wormtongue and Saruman
Pawns - 8 regular Orcs
I would've done it a little differently (two Gollums? Eight Sams? And why isn't the Wraith the Witch-King?!)... but still very cool. The board has a map of Middle-Earth on it, too ^_^