Rolemaster

First Edition
Product: Middle-earth
Poster/Map
Stock #: ME 2100
Producer: Iron Crown
Enterprises (ICE)
Designer: Peter Fenlon
Release date: 1982
Category:
earth Series

Middle-

Format: Poster (Fullcolor 24 x 36 map) either delivered in a tube (Stock # ME 2100) or folded face-out and
shrink-wrapped (Stock # ME 2100-A)
Comments: This poster-map of Middle-earth is the first product coming out from ICE of the
newly launched Middle-earth Series. It came either unfolded in a mailing tube or folded in a
shrink-wrapping. This was a quite large map, sized 24 x 36 (60 x 90 cm), beautifully
colored to be able to determine height (on land), or mountain ranges, and depth (at sea), and
beteween temperate and arid areas, from dark green, through yellow-green to sand colored. It
also had all of the important names written out for the different lands, areas and parts of
Middle-earth. Although giving a very good general feeling and sense of location to Middleearth (probably hitherto unparalleled), the scale is to large for any campaigning in smaller
areas, such as in Eriador or one of the smaller kingdoms. No cities are marked, neither small
areas and lands, such as the Shire, etc. ICE would later compensate this lack by even more
detalied maps in smaller scales, useful for campaigns in limited areas. One intersting detail is
that the map has been decorated at the corners with images or stills taken from Ralph Bakshis
animated movie The Lord of the Rings, which clearly shows where the ICE designers draw
their inspiration from.