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In a retrospective review of Middle-earth Role Playing in Black Gate, Scott Taylor said "MERP, as it is more affectionately called, became the second leading RPG sold in the 1980s, and although mismanagement and rather daunting licensing dealings with the Tolkien estate finally resulted in the games dissolution and the company's bankruptcy, the ...
Moria is introduced in Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, and is a major scene of action in The Lord of the Rings. In much of Middle-earth's history, Moria was the greatest city of the Dwarves. The city's wealth was founded on its mines, which produced mithril, a fictional metal of great beauty and strength, suitable for armour.
Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a publishing company that has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980.Many of ICE's better-known products were related to J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, but the Rolemaster rules system, and its science-fiction equivalent, Space Master, have been the foundation of ICE's business.
Herb Petro reviewed Angus McBride's Characters of Middle-earth in White Wolf #25 (Feb./March, 1991), rating it a 2 out of 5 and stated that "This book is for those who revel in the glories of Middle-Earth, art enthusiasts who don't follow ICE's MERP line, MERP enthusiasts who don't have all the now out of print MERP products bhut still would like to enjoy the cover art from those products, and ...
Scholars have seen multiple resemblances between the medieval Christian conception of hell and evil places in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. These include the industrial hells of Saruman 's Isengard with its underground furnaces and labouring Orcs ; the dark tunnels of Moria ; Sauron 's evil land of Mordor ; and Morgoth 's ...
The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game, released by Decipher, Inc. in 2002, is a tabletop role-playing game set in the fictional world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien. The game is set in the years between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring , but may be run at any time from the First to Fourth Age and contains many examples of ...
Lords of Middle-earth, Volume I is the first of three supplements that detail all the characters that have appeared in J.R.R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth. [1] The first volume focuses on the immortal beings from The Silmarillion, as well as those encountered in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. MERP may refer to: Middle-earth Role Playing; Medicaid Estate Recovery Program ; MerP ...