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Time in Aman & Middle Earth

Any trip to Tolkien’s Middle Earth involves two major themes of the world: The Shadow, and the epic lore of Arda [the world, of which Aman and Middle Earth are continents]. Those are the two aspects that, in my opinion, lend themselves most readily to TTRPGs. I previously wrote

Understanding The Shadow

How I design evil in The One Ring TTRPG. Middle Earth was one of the first fantasy worlds I ever explored — I remember pulling out the maps from my parents’ hardback copies of The Lord of the Rings, poring over them, dreaming about the world long before I ever actually