Though Id probably go with a book
Sure, rarities tell you how often a card was meant to show up in a booster, and it can even give you a hint about how complex, flashy, or powerful that card might be
This card induces a lot of salt because of how efficiently it can win, and with such a tight win line
We'll get the Vehicle sub-type much later, and Equipment basically streamlines a lot of the messiness and (in retrospect) poor mechanical flavour of a lot of these earlier artifacts, but it's interesting to see the roots of those newer mechanics in these earlier sets
The Lord of the Rings is about the different peoples of Middle-earth coming together to fight Sauron, finding strength in their diversity
Her proliferate ability opens up all kinds of avenues and has only gotten more flexible as Wizards experiments with new types of counters like shield and stun