Question: GIPF and Lord of the Rings are both what?
Context: Memories of Middle Earth was created by the Brobdingnagian Bards as a tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".  It is composed of mainly instrumental, and entirely original Celtic/folk style music.  The album was released two years after the band saw much success with its song "Tolkien (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings)" from the album "Songs of the Muse".  It later earned the Bards a live performance at a "The Lord of the Rings" Oscar Party in 2004. A magic ring is a ring, usually a finger ring, that has magical properties.  It appears frequently in fantasy and fairy tales. Magic rings are found in the folklore of every country where rings are worn.  Some magic rings can endow the wearer with a variety of abilities including invisibility and immortality.  Others can grant wishes or spells such as neverending love and happiness.  Sometimes, magic rings can be cursed, as in the fictional ring that was recovered by Sigurd from the hoard of the dragon Fafnir in Norse mythology or the fictional ring that features in J R R Tolkien's modern saga "The Lord of the Rings".  More often, however, they are featured as forces for good, or as a neutral tool whose value is dependent upon the wearer. TAMSK is the second board game in the "GIPF" Project of six abstract strategy games, and was published in 1998.  Players move sand hourglass timers and drop plastic rings around spaces on a hexagonal board in an attempt to limit their opponent's moves.  Each player starts the game with 32 rings, and the player with the fewest remaining rings at the end of the game is the winner.  The game is unique among the "GIPF" Project games in having time as a central game component, and the manner in which time is used is possibly unique among board games in general. The Lord of the Rings Online: Rise of Isengard is the third expansion pack for the MMORPG "The Lord of the Rings Online", released on September 27, 2011.  This is the third expansion pack for The Lord of the Rings Online and, like the previous expansion, it is available as a web-based download only. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 New Zealand-American epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" (1954–1955).  It is the first installment in "The Lord of the Rings series", and was followed by "" (2002) and "" (2003), based on the second and third volumes of "The Lord of the Rings". The One Ring is an artefact that appears as the central plot element in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" (1954–55).  It is described in an earlier story, "The Hobbit" (1937), as a magic ring of invisibility.  In the sequel, "The Lord of the Rings", Tolkien ascribes to the Ring a darker character, with malevolent power going far beyond conferring invisibility: it was created by Sauron the Dark Lord as part of his design to win domination over Middle-earth.  "The Lord of the Rings" concerns the quest to destroy the Ring to keep Sauron from fulfilling his design. The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book written by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.  It is an annotated reference to J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".  Hammond and Scull proceed chapter-by-chapter from the original foreword through to the end of "The Lord of the Rings".  Appendices, examining the evolution of the text, changes, inconsistencies, and errors, often using comments from Tolkien's own notes and letters.  Other sections cover the numerous maps of Middle-earth, chronologies of the story and its writing, and notes on the book and jacket design of the first editions of 1954-55.  The book includes some previously unpublished material by Tolkien.  It also reprints part of a 1951 letter in which Tolkien explicates, at some length, his conception and vision of "The Lord of the Rings".  Reprinted for the first time since 1980, and corrected and expanded, is Tolkien's "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" (previously referred to as "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings"), an index of persons, places, and things designed to aid the translator in rendering Tolkien's work into foreign languages.  It is available in both hardcover and paperback. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 New Zealand-American epic high fantasy adventure film produced, written and directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".  It is the third and final installment in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, following "" (2001) and "" (2002), preceding "The Hobbit" film trilogy (2012–14). Lord of the Rings is a board game based on the high fantasy trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien.  Published in 2000 by Kosmos in Germany, Wizards of the Coast in the U.S., and Parker Brothers in the U.K., the game is designed by Reiner Knizia and features artwork by illustrator John Howe.  It won a Spiel des Jahres special award for "best use of literature in a game" and in 2004 it won the Games Magazine Games 100 Honor in the Family Strategy category.  A slightly revised version was later published by Fantasy Flight Games. GIPF is an abstract strategy board game by Kris Burm, the first of six games in his series of games called the "GIPF" Project.
Answer: board game