I'm impressed, really am. Nice work.
Many thanks, Gil-Estel. It is quite hard to come by any information on these, especially because there were very few people around in 2005 who knew about these cards in the first place. And more and more people forget about the details of distribution etc., so it gets harder as time goes by.
I contacted the German distributor, but the people in charge of LotR TCG had already moved on to other jobs and were not available for comments. Thanks to a fellow player from France I was able to get much information on things in France back then.
I have yet to contact the Italian distributor and ask a couple of friends in Italy, but I am not holding my breath for any new insights...
It seems like the ways in which the TF foils were actually distributed, varied slightly from country to country. E.g. the French 13TF5 was hardly distributed at all and in a rather obscure way, whereas in Germany the TF foils seem to have been distributed along the lines of "in-store trading" as well as through tournament prize support.
Only Italy seems to have distributed the TF foils "properly", i.e. given them out to players as a set.
I can only implore and beseech anyone who knows anything about these cards, that is not already covered in this thread, to post their information here as well as to clarify or rectify any information posted here.