I know it sounds cheesy, but I actually helped design the first deck. I collected LotR with a friend, I played tanked-up Fellowship with Nazgûl, and he played that deck. Conceived from scratch. Of course, our version seems a little different now, since we adapted to errata and naturally evolved it to our metagame when people started stacking their decks to beat us and us alone, not even caring about what everyone else was playing. Good times, good times!