Ok, I'm back and the Survivor Series sucked, the wings were too darn hot, but the beer wasn't bad and I won two games of NTN trivia (#1 locally and I placed #111 on the entire nationwide network on one game and #126 on the other game with 9600+ points and 11050 points, respectively). :D
Sadly, the Lord of the Rings pinball game was gone.
In its place was a Ripley's Believe It Or Not pinball machine. It looked brand new, but something was wrong as the DMD was dark and the GI lights just kept flashing on & off. It looked like a ball got stuck on the one auto-plunger like device on the right side, but apparently the machine was unaware of it since it refused to kick the darn thing. So, I never got to play it, but I did get a good look at the game. It looked wholly unremarkable, IMO. Maybe they'll trade it out for an Elvis within a few months if I'm lucky.