middle earth

Because the official Games Workshop LOTR miniatures are incredibly expensive compared to historical minis, I am using the following sets instead. Do you think they look right for the armies I'm using them for. Dunlendings/Evil Hillmen...

I think it makes sense that there would be crossbows in Middle Earth, seeing as elves can make swords that glow blue when orcs are near, and Saruman and Sauron both have some form of gunpowder. It also makes sense seeing as loads of civilizations on Earth had some form of crossbow, even the...

This arrived in the mail this weekend. Core rulebook, Shire supplement, DM screen. So the history goes something like this: (1) The One Ring RPG was written for Cubicle-7. TOR featured its own RPG system and takes place in the time of The Hobbit so that folks don't have to stress over that...

Did Tolkien ever mention that elves and hobbits actually had different shape ears, or was that invented for the films?

Has anyone read this work from 2004 by chance? It sounds like it might have 'features of interest' (Sherlock Holmes).

I mentioned in the "What Are You Reading" thread that I do Steampunk, but any further discussion of it would have been a thread hijack, so I created this Thread. What?! You say that Steampunk never would have been discussed in the GD? Au contraire! ME had Steampunk (sort of). Saruman was a...

Does anyone know what Military ranks the armies of Mordor and Gondor would have?

What are your favorite songs/poems/quotes/lines from the book? If someone else has already started one about favorite lines from the book, please let me know. I personally have way too many favorites. my three favorite are: "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are...

We know that a bunch of Mair such a Sauron, the Balrogs, and Saruman all turned evil, but Melkor seems to be the only Valar to have gone evil (perhaps in some typology of Satan?). But suppose that Manwe or Tulkas also decided that they wanted to have things their own way and became a Dark...

I'm sure you all know and have played bfme 2 game. On the internet, some people say that bfme 2 game is based on canon and true stories for the good campaign mode. Some people say that the battles and events in the game are fictional. Do you think the good campaign scenario of this game can be...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lord-of-the-rings-new-movies-in-the-works-1235332695/amp/ Uhmmmmmmmmm, This was bound to happen CL

As an avid reader of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books, I have noticed some curious references to racism and even ethnic cleansing in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. By no means implying Tolkien himself was racist, or approved of such beliefs! But he doesn’t shy away from depicting that such...

I am so far behind on all things Tolkien-related, that I had not even realized that CJRT drew a corrected map of Middle-earth for UT, that is now the basis of the maps used for newer printings of LOTR. In any case, my question is about the original 1954 map of Middle-earth—the one with the...

According to the maps below, the size of beleriand is about the size of the eriador. Do you think this is really true? Was the middle-earth of the third age much larger than beleriand, as in these two pictures?

I had resigned myself to buying the three volume History of Middle-earth (HOME) books despite them apparently being quite cumbersome and on extremely thin paper and thus quite a trial to read. The original 13 volume series is other than a few volumes well out of my comfortable price range...

If you need to bulild your settlements/castle to protect around 3k people of your kind, where it would be?

In the spirit of 'what Tolkien books y'all got' I present a list of Middle-earth RPG products I own. A lot of people have a problem with Rolemaster (Chartmaster, Rollmaster), but I like crunchy RPGs. Other than all the charts, Rolemaster isn't any more complicated than most RPGs and MERP less...

I have a modest collection of Middle-earth related books. Aside from four or five novels by JRR and/or Christopher Tolkien, I've managed to gather up several volumes of The History of Middle-earth and every MERP module I can find that's about the East, Witch-Kings or any kind of awesome...

I used to have some solo gamebooks (similar to Lone Wolf, choose-your-own-adventure with some RPG additions) called Middle-Earth Quest and Tolkien Quest. I never got around to trying them out, has anyone read/played these gamebooks? I'm interested in picking some up to keep in my library, but I...

I thought of 16 teams: Grey Havens, The Shire, Bree, Rivendell, Moria, Mirkwood, Lorien, Fangorn, Rohan, Dunland, Gondor, Mordor, Umbar, Harad, Rhun, Isengard plus Lake Town and Erebor as one team. Any creature living within those areas can play for their team. No magic, murder or weapons...