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• General sources
• Decipher's LOTR RPG
• General MERP sources
• Northwestern Endor
• Eriador and North
• Misty Mountains
• Northern Gondor
• Mirkwood, Rhovanion and Rhun
• Central Gondor
• Southern Gondor
• Mordor
• Harad
• Far South

Professor Tolkien's source material

The Hobbit (or There and Back Again)

The Lord of the Rings (aka. The Red Book of Westmarch)

The Fellowship of the Ring - Books I & II
The Two Towers - Books III & IV
The Return of the King - Books V & VI
Appendices A to F

 

The Silmarillion (aka Translations from Elvish)

Ainulindalë

Valaquenta

Quenta Silmarillion

Akallabêth
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

Unfinished Tales

Of Tuor and his coming to Gondolin

Narn i Hîn Hûrin
A description of the island of Númenor
Aldarion and Erendis
The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn

The Disaster of the Gladden Fields

Cirion and Eorl

The Quest for Erebor

The Hunt for the Ring

The Battles of the Fords of Isen

The Druedain

The Istari

The Palantíri

History of Middle-Earth (Parts I - XII) - (see Mellonath Daeron's list of the contents of HOME)

I - The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
II - The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
III - The Lays of Beleriand

IV - The Shaping of Middle-Earth
V - The Lost Road and other writings
VI - The Return of the Shadow
VII - The Treason of Isengard
VIII - The War of the Ring

IX - Sauron Defeated
X - Morgoth's Ring
XI - The War of the Jewels
XII - The Peoples of Middle-Earth
 

Letters of JRR Tolkien (see FAQ for 'Letters')

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General Sources

The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Fonstad)
The Journeys of Frodo
The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth (Foster, 1978)

Other Hands - Nos. 1 - 34 (Archive / List of Contents)
Otherhands MERP Links (List of sites)

Vinyar Tengwar - Noose 1 - 42 (List of Contents), in particular:

"Osanwe-kenta: 'Enquiry into the Communication of Thought'", JRR Tolkien, No.39.
"The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor", JRR Tolkien, No.42.

Ardalambion - Linguistics site.

Lalaith's Middle-Earth Science Pages

OneRing: The Complete Guide to Tolkien Online

JRR Tolkien and Middle-Earth - Suite101.com (Michael Martinez), in particular:

The Merchants of Middle Earth (5 Nov 1999)
Ranger for Hire: Have horse, will travel (17 Dec 1999)

Beorning questions... (14 Jan 2000)

The Wild, Wild, Wood-elf West (12 May 2000)

Resurrecting Dale, City of a Thousand Untold Tales (2 Jun 2000)

The Historic Baranduin (9 Jul 2000)

Razing Arnor: How real were the Dunadan conspiracies (25 Aug 2000)

Seeking the wayward children of Numenor (8 Sep 2000)

Before the Numenoreans came (15 Sep 2000)

Have island, will rebel (22 Sep 2000)

Elves by the numbers (8 Dec 2000)

Ithilien, Moon over Gondor (26 Jan 2001)

Pasta la feasta, baby! (11 Feb 2001)

There are games afoot! (18 Feb 2001)

Of thegns and kings and rangers and things (30 Mar 2001)

Life in an elven fishing town (12 May 2001)

A History of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men (May-Jun 2001)

Scaling the walls of war in Middle-Earth (17 Jun 2001)

Good night, good Rhudaur (1 Jul 2001)

The Tip of the Iceberg: new information about Middle-Earth (Sep 2001)

Riding in carts with Hobbits (30 Sep 2001)

Also:

Understanding Magic in JRR Tolkien's Middle-Earth (Martinez, 1999)

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Decipher's Lord of the Rings RPG Sources

Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Core Book (2002)
The Fellowship of the Ring Sourcebook (2003)
The Two Towers Sourcebook (2003) NEW
Fell Beasts and Wonderous Magic (2003) NEW
Moria (2003) NEW

Maps of Middle-earth (2002)

Colin Chapman's Character Generation Summary (pdf)
Steward & King's Unofficial Errata & FAQ


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General MERP Sources

Middle-Earth Role Playing (ICE, 1986)
Campaign and Adventure Guidebook (ICE, 1982)
Middle-Earth Adventure Guidebook II (ICE, 1989)
Middle-Earth Campaign Guide (ICE, 1993)
Creatures of Middle Earth (ICE, 1988)
Treasures of Middle Earth (ICE, 1994)
Lords of Middle-Earth Vol. I - The Immortals (ICE, 1986)
Lords of Middle-Earth Vol. II - The Mannish Races (ICE, 1987)
Lords of Middle-Earth Vol. III - Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs & Trolls (ICE, 1989)
Valar and Maiar (ICE, 1993)
Elves (ICE, 1994)
Angus McBrides Characters of Middle-Earth (ICE, 1990)

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Northwestern Endor

Northwestern Middle-Earth Gazetteer (ICE, 1992)
Palantir Quest (ICE, 1994)
Kin-Strife (ICE, 1995)
Hands of the Healer (ICE, 1997)

Eriador and North

Angmar, Land of the Witch King (ICE, 1982)
Empire of the Witch King (ICE, 1989)
The Northern Waste (ICE, 1994)
Rangers of the North (ICE, 1984)
Arnor (ICE, 1994)
Lost Realm of Cardolan (ICE, 1987)
The Shire (ICE, 1995)

Armies of Eriador (Morwinsky, Other Hands, 33/34)

Weathertop, Tower of the Wind (ICE, 1987)
Bree and the Barrow Downs (ICE, 1984)
Dark Mage of Rhudaur (ICE, 1989)
Rogues of the Borderlands (ICE, 1990)
Hillmen of the Trollshaws (ICE, 1984)
Thieves of Tharbad (ICE, 1985)
Woses of the Black Wood (ICE, 1987)
Raiders of Cardolan (ICE, 1988)
Denizens of the Dark Wood (ICE, 1989)

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Misty Mountains

Moria, the Dwarven City (ICE, 1984)
Moria (ICE, 1994)
Mount Gundabad (ICE, 1989)
Lorien and the Halls of the Elven Smiths (ICE, 1986)
Dunland and the Southern Misty Mountains (ICE, 1987)
Goblin Gate and Eagle's Eyrie (ICE, 1985)
Rivendell - The House of Elrond (ICE, 1987)
Ghost Warriors (ICE, 1990)
Trolls of the Misty Mountains (ICE, 1986)

Northern Gondor / Calenhadon

Isengard and Northern Gondor (ICE, 1983)
Riders of Rohan (ICE, 1985)
Ents of Fangorn (ICE, 1987)
Calenhad A beacon of Gondor (ICE, 1990)
Mouths of the Entwash (ICE, 1988)

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Rhovanion / Mirkwood / Rhun

Northern Mirkwood (ICE, 1983)
Southern Mirkwood (ICE, 1983)
Mirkwood - The Wilds of Rhovanion (ICE, 1988)
The Grey Mountains (ICE, 1992)
Halls of the Elven King (ICE, 1988)
Dol Guldur (ICE, 1995)
Brigands of Mirkwood (ICE, 1987)
The Necromancer's Lieutenant (ICE, 1990)

Laketown (ICE, 1995)
Perils of the Sea of Rhun (ICE, 1990)
River Running (ICE, 1992)

The Inland Sea (Other Hands, Unpublished Supplement)

Central Gondor

Minas Tirith (ICE, 1988)
Minas Tirith (ICE, 1994)
Minas Ithil (ICE, 1991)
Erech and the Paths of the Dead (ICE, 1985)
Haunted Ruins of the Dunlendings (ICE, 1985)

Southern Gondor

Havens of Gondor (ICE, 1987)
Sea Lords of Gondor (ICE, 1987)
Southern Gondor: The People (ICE, 1996)
Southern Gondor: The Land (ICE, 1997)
Pirates of Pelargir (ICE, 1987)
Assassins of Dol Amroth (ICE, 1987)
Ghosts of the Southern Anduin (ICE, 1989)

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Mordor

Gorgoroth (ICE, 1990)
Teeth of Mordor (ICE, 1988)
Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes (ICE, 1984)
The Tower of Cirith Ungol and Shelob's Lair (ICE, 1984)
Gates of Mordor (ICE, 1987)

Harad

Umbar, Haven of the Corsairs (ICE, 1982)
Far Harad, the Scorched Land (ICE, 1988)
Greater Harad (ICE, 1990)
Nazgul's Citadel (ICE, 1991)
Warlords of the Desert (ICE, 1989)
Forest of Tears (ICE, 1990)
Hazads of the Harad Wood (ICE, 1990)

Far South

Court of Ardor in Southern Middle Earth (ICE, 1982)
Shadow in the South (ICE, 1988)

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