• Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail (or Middle-earth PBM), is a turn-based, strategy play by email and play-by-mail game set in the world of The Lord of the Rings...
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  • (Games Systems Inc.) for Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail released by Game Systems Inc. and the One Ring module of Legends (PBM) released by Harlequin Games. Card...
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    PBM won the Origins Award for Best Play-by-Mail Game of 1985, 1990–1994, tied in 1995 with Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail, and was then added to their Hall...
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  • Magazine GURPS Illuminati play-by-mail game Mage Knight Mage Knight Board Game Magic: The Gathering Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail Mythos Nuclear War Paranoia...
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  • play-by-mail game (also known as a PBM game, PBEM game, turn-based game, turn based distance game, or an interactive strategy game.) is a game played...
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  • of play-by-mail (PBM) games. It includes games played only by postal mail, those played by mail with a play-by-email (PBEM) option, and games played in...
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    an early PBM game in 1970. Origins Award Hall-of-Fame member Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail is still active today. Reality Simulations, Inc. still runs a...
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  • In the fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Dwarves are a race inhabiting Middle-earth, the central continent of Arda in an imagined mythological past. They...
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  • in the genre: Alamaze, Hyborian War, Legends, Middle Earth, Olympia, and Suzerainty. List of play-by-mail games Barton 1996. p. 23. Bierbower 1996. p....
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  • The weapons and armour of Middle-earth are all those mentioned J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings, such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings...
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    a fictional kingdom of Men in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy setting of Middle-earth. Known for its horsemen, the Rohirrim, Rohan provides its ally Gondor...
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  • (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), set in his fictional world of Middle-earth, have been the subject of numerous motion picture adaptations across...
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    sought to capture aspects of Middle-earth fantasy novels in paintings and drawings. He was followed in his lifetime by artists whose work he liked, such...
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  • the Lonely Mountain. Middle-earth Strategic Gaming (formerly Middle-earth Play-by-Mail), which has won several Origin Awards, uses the Battle of Five...
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  • developing the game in 1984, eventually publishing it in December 1989 as a play-by-mail (PBM) game after over a year of playtesting. The initial game comprised...
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  • chronological inconsistency, is seen in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth in the juxtaposition of cultures of evidently different periods, such...
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  • several constructed languages, mostly related to his fictional world of Middle-earth. Inventing languages, something that he called glossopoeia (paralleling...
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  • 2003 Origins Award winners (category Origins Awards by year)
    Knights of the Dinner Table Kenzer & Company Play-by-Mail Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail Game Systems, Inc. Game Aid Bag o’ Zombies Twilight Creations Electronic...
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  • Mithril (category Middle-earth objects)
    knew and could have used for his mithril mail-coat. Mithril is the only invented mineral in his Middle-earth writings. Chemists note mithril's remarkable...
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  • 1995 Origins Award winners (category Origins Awards by year)
    Best Play-by-Mail Game of 1995 Illuminati Play by Mail (tie) Flying Buffalo, Inc. Designer: Draper Kauffman Best Play-by-Mail Game of 1995 Middle-earth Play-by-Mail...
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  • 1996 Origins Award winners (category Origins Awards by year)
    Best Play-by-Mail Game of 1996 Middle Earth Play-By-Mail Game Systems, Inc. Designers: William B. Feild, Jr., Peter G. Stassun Best New Play-by-Mail Game...
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  • 1997 Origins Award winners (category Origins Awards by year)
    Play-by-Mail Adventure Systems, Flying Buffalo, Inc. Designer: Draper Kauffman 1998 Inductees to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Middle-earth Play-by-Mail...
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  • philologist, drew on the Old English poem Beowulf for multiple aspects of his Middle-earth legendarium, alongside other influences. He used elements such as names...
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    period, had a major influence on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. He was a professional philologist, and made use of his knowledge of...
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  • or simply the Nine, are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. They were nine Men who had succumbed to Sauron's power through wearing...
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  • offering the knowledge to transform Middle-earth with the light of Valinor, the home of the Valar. He was shunned by the Elven leaders Gil-galad and Elrond...
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  • reviewing the novel for The Oxford Mail, called it "more than immense; it is complete", praising Tolkien's Middle-earth as "an absolutely real and unendingly...
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  • Witch-king of Angmar (category Middle-earth Men)
    Second Age of Middle-earth. The Dark Lord Sauron gave Rings of Power to powerful Men, including kings of countries in Middle-earth. These confer magical...
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  • The economy of Middle-earth is J. R. R. Tolkien's treatment of economics in his fantasy world of Middle-earth. Scholars such as Steven Kelly have commented...
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  • Midgard (album), a 2016 album by Faun Midgard (game), a play-by-mail game Midgard (role-playing game), a German role-playing game Midgard, Scotland, a location...
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