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Thanks to everyone for contributing to this thread and welcoming me...I feel a part of the C7 forum community.

Feel free to chime in if you have any further questions about the OP and its sources.

In the meantime, see you along the Middle-earth Way...

Middle-earth Way wrote:Thanks to everyone for contributing to this thread and welcoming me...I feel a part of the C7 forum community.

Feel free to chime in if you have any further questions about the OP and its sources.

In the meantime, see you along the Middle-earth Way...

Cool. Thanks for taking our ribbing in a good-natured way. I'd love it if the D&DME project causes an explosion of Middle-earth RPG goodness.

Middle-earth Way wrote:

Dalriada wrote:No, because the MERP books were probably not completely within the law licence-wise. They used a lot of stuff from the Silmarillion for example.

Darn. You're right.

Looking forward to the day when love of the game/art/creativity trumps legalism and monetization.

Would require a special agreement with the Tolkien Estate.

Write to your congress(wo)men and tell them to stop groveling to media companies by continually extending the duration of copyright.

Glorelendil wrote:Write to your congress(wo)men and tell them to stop groveling to media companies by continually extending the duration of copyright.

Given that The Silmarillion remained unpublished until 1977, Tolkien's posthumous works would remain under copyright protection for many years regardless of current law--especially where Christopher Tolkien is considered to be the co-author.

Otaku-sempai wrote:

Glorelendil wrote:Write to your congress(wo)men and tell them to stop groveling to media companies by continually extending the duration of copyright.

Given that The Silmarillion remained unpublished until 1977, Tolkien's posthumous works would remain under copyright protection for many years regardless of current law--especially where Christopher Tolkien is considered to be the co-author.

GE's point though is that if Disney keeps getting their way, Steamboat Willie (Mickey Mouse, 1928) will never enter public domain and thus nothing after that will either.

zedturtle wrote:GE's point though is that if Disney keeps getting their way, Steamboat Willie (Mickey Mouse, 1928) will never enter public domain and thus nothing after that will either.

Yeah, I understand that. But it still wouldn't alter the current situation for many years.

There used to be a great D&D style Star Wars RPG that had the movie stuff in the main book and everything else in a series of sourcebooks.
One of the really good things One Ring does in its storyline is move naturally from one region to another, picking up cultures as it goes. I think it's better for this. I wouldn't have even had Hobbits in the core book personally, but I see why they were there. With Star Wars, anything can happen and any party can work, and they can meet anywhere. With Tolkien that's just not the case. The Fellowship of the Ring was a unique gathering of culturest that didn't exist in any other of Tolkien's works.

Saelur wrote:I wouldn't have even had Hobbits in the core book personally, but I see why they were there. With Star Wars, anything can happen and any party can work, and they can meet anywhere. With Tolkien that's just not the case.

That could have conceivably worked, but we would have needed an Eriador supplement much sooner. And the core book should then have included the Men of Lake-town.

I suspect that MoL fell prey to page count restrictions.

I'm hoping for a spinoff set in the First Age eventually
Would be epic. I know it isn't happening anytime soon though.