Magic is a lot (I mean A LOT) more simple... after playing LOTR, Magic becomes so easy and simple you find it childish sometimes.

I’m sorry, but if you think that, then you probably weren’t a very good player back then. Granted, LotR players, who have to build 2 decks to make one (SHadow & Free Peoples) have an innate sense of balance, and it DOES help in grasping some concepts, making it easier to start learning it, but the real advanced stuff is waaaaaay more complicated, and making combat and the stack work in your favor is tricky.

In Magic you’re a wizard and the cards are spells and creatures you use to defeat the other wizard(s), your opponents. The goal is to reduce the other wizard’s life points to zero. You do that by dealing damage either with creatures or spells.

You can actually win in four ways: reducing the opponent’s life points to 0, decking (if a player must draw a card and can’t, due to an empty library, he loses the game), "win the game" cards (like Coalition Victory, but mind you, those are really hard to pull off consistently) or earning a concession from the opponent (for instance, if the game becomes unwinable for him).

Instead of twilight, you need land to play your cards. Some cards require you have 2 lands in play, other require 8 and so on. You can only play 1 land per turn and you need to tap them to use it and you untap it on your next turn.

You actually need mana to pay for the cost of your spells. Mana is acquired, basically, from Lands (you can lay down one land card per turn), although some cards also produce mana, like Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves, Seething Song or Azorius Signet.

For any LOTR player Magic should be ridiculously easy to learn no offense

As I said before, sorry, but if you really think that you mustn’t have been a very good MtG player, no offense.

I prefer LOTR all the way. I haven’t played Magic ever since I first saw LOTR cards and I neither collect nor own any Magic cards, so I just voted "LOTR Only"

I played both, and both have their upsides. Of course, everyone has those cards in MtG they just love, and you CAN build casual decks around them, but in LotR, since your characters die little by little instead of at once, and you have so fewer characters than creatures in MtG (depending on the deck, of course), you "connect" to them more. Then, LotR is about a story we all learned to love more and more. However, since MtG is not tied to a singular story (actually, each new block has its own 3-book novel), the game has basically endless possibilities. Then, the game is more balanced and there are less "holes" to be filled in the rules, due to the game’s evolution. Then, MtG tends to be less boring over a long time of play, beause games go about real quick in duels, while in LotR, sometimes, the game drgs on for too long. Last, since LotR was deemed dead (it’s over), you can only play casual games, while MtG allows for extensive tournament play, earning both cards and, if you’re good enough, money (at Pro Tours). So, I’d still play casual LotR if someone ’round here still played, but for focusing, I’d go with MtG all the way. So much I started on MtG, switched to LotR (I wasn’t a very good MtG player back then, so I lost too much and blamed the older cards I didn’t have access to), but switched back later on.