I have a thread - middle-earth-judges-guild-wilderlands - running in parallel on the odd74 forum, focusing more on the First Age map creation. At the moment Im wondering how to use as much as possible of the Lord of the Rings Third Age map in a First Age setting.
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For as long as I sustain interest in making notes for such a game as I reread NiCH & The Silmarillion & a couple of stories from the HoME I will present notes here, though I am primarily putting down ideas in a notebook where I can also sketch appalling portraits of the characters.
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Building a Game for First Age Middle-earth -- i
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For as long as I sustain interest in making notes for such a game as I reread NiCH & The Silmarillion & a couple of stories from the HoME I will present notes here, though I am primarily putting down ideas in a notebook where I can also sketch appalling portraits of the characters.For those interested in those brief passages of text which were cut from Narn i Hîn Húrin in Unfinished Tales when Chris Tolkien came to edit The Children of Hûrin here they are. The pdf should be the correct size with some border cropping to insert into your copy of The Children of Hûrin by fixing it with double sided tape to one of the blank pages at the back near the map.
Then on page 79 put 'I' in the margin, on page 82 put a 'II' in the margin and perhaps on page 178 put a 'III' in the margin, I'll reconsider the placement of 'III' when Ive read the book again.
Here is a pdf of the page.
Building a Game for First Age Middle-earth -- i
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