This may be a blast from the past for some... Iron Crown Enterprises' Middle Earth Roleplaying game. This was a fantastic (if mostly non-canon) way for young Tolkien fans to get their fix of Middle Earth material in the 1980s, going into the 1990s.
The Tolkien Estate didn't approve of roleplaying games based on Middle Earth, as the publishers of Dungeons and Dragons found out when they were legally challenged and had to remove Hobbits and Ents (renamed Halflings and "Treants"). Iron Crown Enterprises bypassed this by licensing it from Saul Zaentz's Tolkien Enterprises.
The picture shows some of the game's adventure and campaign modules. Sadly these are quite collectible and expensive these days. So I don't have all of them!
Yes... in the UK at least. Before they became known entirely for Warhammer, Games Workshop licensed a version of the game from ICE. This is the Games Workshop edition, with stunning cover artwork by Chris Achilleos:
Oh that is why Chris Achilleos painted that. I had an artbook by him and it was not clear to me why he had drawn something LOTR related, now I see. Thank you.
I actually owned the first couple of these, but quickly found out that I had no one to play with, so many friends, but none that were interested. Sold them at a garage sale when I was still young, I sure wish I had kept them now!
EDIT: I always disliked the way "MERP" sounded. LOL
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u/AdEmbarrassed3066 3h ago
Special mention for the maps, drawn by Pete Fenlon...